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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [shepherd] herd status suggestion
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2018 21:39:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874liae8iu.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180610143153.juzeulj2cruytwsc@abyayala> (Nils Gillmann's message of "Sun, 10 Jun 2018 14:31:53 +0000")

Hello Nils,

Nils Gillmann <ng0@n0.is> skribis:

> Ricardo Wurmus transcribed 982 bytes:
>> 
>> Hi Nils,
>> 
>> > abyayala$ sudo herd status tor
>> > Status of tor:
>> >   It is stopped.
>> >   It is disabled.
>> >   Provides (tor).
>> >   Requires (user-processes loopback syslogd).
>> >   Conflicts with ().
>> >   Will be respawned.
>> >   Last respawned on Sun Jun 10 08:08:45Z 2018.
>> >
>> >
>> > Would it be an option to change the status output to,
>> > if it conflicts with no other service:
>> >
>> >   Conflicts with no other services.
>> >
>> > instead of the representation of an empty list?

[...]

> Related and similar: Would it be reasonable to change the output from list-style,
> like:
>   Depends on: (foo bar irks boot)
>
> to the probably tiny bit better readable:
>
>   Depends on: foo, bar, irks, boot
>
> for humans?

I agree with both proposals.  :-)

The output of ‘herd status’ is meant for humans to read, not for
machines to process, so it makes sense to make these changes IMO.  For
machines there’s a well-defined protocol that can be used, so we should
do our best to make ‘herd status’ useful to humans.

If you want to give it a try, this is all happening in
modules/shepherd/scripts/herd.scm.

Thank you,
Ludo’.

  reply	other threads:[~2018-06-10 19:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-06-10 10:34 [shepherd] herd status suggestion Nils Gillmann
2018-06-10 11:31 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-06-10 14:31   ` Nils Gillmann
2018-06-10 19:39     ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2018-06-10 19:47       ` Nils Gillmann

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