Weighting in here, as small as my weight may be:
- re-using 'service' is IMHO a bad idea, it is a loaded term and the
expectation of a new reader is that a service is a SysV-init service:
it can be started, status-ed, stopped, restarted, and that's it. It
maps to a daemon running in the back
> In the systemd realm, there are different types of services, I think one
> is called "one-shot" which is effectively quite similar to the types of
> services guix has... they do something once, and there is no running
> daemon. So, for better or worse, guix is not so far from one of the most
> wi
On 2024-02-02, Attila Lendvai wrote:
>> > for an average unix user a service is a process that is running in the
>> > backgroud, doing stuff mostly without any user interaction. you can
>> > try to argue this away, but i'm afraid that this is the state of
>> > things.
>>
>>
>> I don’t think it’s
> Am Donnerstag, dem 01.02.2024 um 20:30 + schrieb Attila Lendvai:
>
> > for an average unix user a service is a process that is running in
> > the backgroud, doing stuff mostly without any user interaction. you
> > can try to argue this away, but i'm afraid that this is the state of
> > thing
> > for an average unix user a service is a process that is running in the
> > backgroud, doing stuff mostly without any user interaction. you can
> > try to argue this away, but i'm afraid that this is the state of
> > things.
>
>
> I don’t think it’s a good idea to aim to satisfy some presumed
> for an average unix user a service is a process that is running in the
> backgroud, doing stuff mostly without any user interaction. you can
> try to argue this away, but i'm afraid that this is the state of
> things.
I don’t think it’s a good idea to aim to satisfy some presumed “average
unix
Am Donnerstag, dem 01.02.2024 um 20:30 + schrieb Attila Lendvai:
>
> for an average unix user a service is a process that is running in
> the backgroud, doing stuff mostly without any user interaction. you
> can try to argue this away, but i'm afraid that this is the state of
> things.
Which i
> there for most of the time already. And if you think about it,
> symlinking stuff to /etc is a service.
i've arrived to guix after 3+ decades of programming, most of that in
opensource environments, unix-like OS'es, and more than a decade using linux as
my primary OS and lisp as my goto langua
Am Donnerstag, dem 01.02.2024 um 05:29 -0800 schrieb Felix Lechner:
> On Thu, Nov 30 2023, Attila Lendvai wrote:
>
> > the use of 'service' to describe two rather different abstractions:
> > a component of an OS vs. a deamon process run by shepherd.
>
> Indeed, the use of 'service' in much of Gui
