Re: Service refactoring

["Thompson, David" <dthompson2@worcester.edu>]

On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 12:00 PM, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
> Andy Wingo <wingo@igalia.com> skribis:
>
>> On Sun 20 Sep 2015 15:42, ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>>
>>> I’m quite happy with the result, but comments are welcome!  I’ll convert
>>> some more services to see how it goes.
>>
>> Neat!  Sounds great.  One question: there are some services like colord
>> or geoclue that don't need to be managed by DMD, but are just declared
>> as services so that their users are created, there /var/foo directories
>> are created, etc.  The can be started by D-Bus as needed.  Does the new
>> design support services of this kind?
>
> Yes it does.
>
> ‘colord’ will “extend” the D-Bus service by giving it its package object
> (thus its .service files), it will extend the activation service by
> providing it #~(mkdir "/var/foo"), and it will extend the account
> service by passing it its user accounts/groups.

I'm picturing an enhanced 'nginx-service' that is able to accept site
configuration files from other services (say, a MediaGoblin service)
and it sounds like a great feature.  Now, is the following scenario
possible?: 'mediagoblin-service' can extend both 'apache-service' and
'nginx-service', and when the system configuration is realized, the
web service the user has chosen is extended.

This is really great stuff.  :)

- Dave