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Comment by ๐ŸŒ™ dmoonfire


Re: "Nixpkgs without systemd"

In: s/Nix-NixOs


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...


๐ŸŒ™ dmoonfire

2023-07-12 ยท 11 months ago


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๐ŸŒ’ s/Nix-NixOs

Nixpkgs without systemd โ€” What would have to be done to make Nixpkgs init-system agnostic? In other words, why is systemd a dependency for Nixpkgs?

๐Ÿ’ฌ DocEdelgas ยท 1 comment ยท 2 likes ยท 2023-07-11 ยท 11 months ago

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