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What would have to be done to make Nixpkgs init-system agnostic? In other words, why is systemd a dependency for Nixpkgs?
2023-07-11 · 2 months ago · 👍 emilis, Odintsoff
I'm guessing because they had to pick one otherwise testing and support would be overwhelming. and systems handles most of the problems in a space that a lot if existing services already support (though telling Ceph not to use systems on Nix was fun).
systemd also handles the reloading that makes nixos-rebuild useful.
...otherwise testing and support of two or more init/mounting/service infrastructures would be...
2023-07-12 · 8 weeks ago