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From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
Subject: Re: [shepherd] herd status suggestion
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2018 13:31:58 +0200
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To: Nils Gillmann <ng0@n0.is>
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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?

This sounds like a good idea.  The only argument in favour of keeping it
the way it is now is too weak to take serious: it makes it slightly
easier to parse the output of =E2=80=9Cherd status=E2=80=9D.

Could you please prepare a patch to change the output?  It=E2=80=99s also w=
orth
checking how gettext is used in shepherd (I don=E2=80=99t know more than th=
at it
uses =E2=80=9Cl10n=E2=80=9D as a =E2=80=9Cgettext=E2=80=9D alias) to make s=
ure that the string can be
translated.

Thanks for this proposal!

--
Ricardo