Ricardo Wurmus <rek...@elephly.net> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès <ludovic.cour...@inria.fr> writes:
>
>> Bonus: what would the tarball backend do with the entry point?  Ignore it?
>
> It should end up as a script in the tarball IMO.

With an easily recognizable fixed name?  Like /init or /run?

> Maybe we want a more general feature here.  For example, we had the
> problem that /etc/environment is not actually sourced by default.  Maybe
> what we need is a way to start services that are then configured like
> any other shepherd service…?  Or is this too much?

I think it could be useful, but it’s a special case of the more general
notion of an “entry point”: a possible entry point could be ‘shepherd’,
but it doesn’t have to.

Ludo’.

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