From: Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl>
To: Christopher Lemmer Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: What is the philosophy behind shepherd?
Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2019 15:35:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190407133515.drlehsudbh7scasj@thebird.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a7h2buk8.fsf@dustycloud.org>
On Sat, Apr 06, 2019 at 07:08:55PM -0400, Christopher Lemmer Webber wrote:
> In other words, I think systemd exists in many ways to make up for the
> limitations of a monolithic kernel approach. In that way, it makes
> sense, but I think we could do better with a different fundamental
> infrastructure.
One way to view it is that systemd does a lot of 'magic'. I.e., there
are internal assumptions that are not that clear. A black box.
For most users, or use cases, that is fine, but when it comes to
running robust and reliable systems you want to define a system with
its services as a reproducible 'expression', much in the spirit of
Guix.
That is where shepherd comes in.
Systemd reminds me too much of Microsoft Windows. Things just happen.
Pj.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-04-07 13:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-04-06 19:30 What is the philosophy behind shepherd? Katherine Cox-Buday
2019-04-06 21:02 ` znavko
2019-04-06 21:21 ` Katherine Cox-Buday
2019-04-07 8:08 ` znavko
2019-04-06 23:08 ` Christopher Lemmer Webber
2019-04-07 13:35 ` Pjotr Prins [this message]
2019-04-07 17:52 ` Adam Pribyl
2019-04-08 9:25 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-04-11 1:21 ` Danny Milosavljevic
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