[artix-general] GNU Shepherd init

[Chris Cromer]

I thought that artoo generally handled everything OpenRC related?

On 5/12/20 10:45 PM, Dudemanguy via artix-general wrote:
>> I also think having the shepherd init [1] (formerly DMD) support would
>> be great.  And it can be combined with the pies supervisor [2].  That
>> combination might be great, even though pies is mentioned to possibly
>> act as an init system, because what's being "actively" developed as
>> the GNU init system is shepherd.  pies as a supervisor resembles s6
>> and runit somehow, from [2]:
> 
> I don't know the details of how GNU shepherd works, but it's certainly
> not technically impossible to add another init. Artix is very
> init-agnostic so as long as said init doesn't do a lot of crazy things
> (like systemd), it should be possible to add it. Of course, someone
> would need to step up and actually implement and actively support it
> (sidenote: we really could use a dedicated openrc maintainer). It's not
> terribly hard, but it does take quite some time to iron things things out.

-- 
Chris Cromer
Artix Developer
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