Re: Could s6-scscan ignore non-servicedir folders? [provides-needs deps]

2015-01-22 Thread post-sysv
On 01/22/2015 01:33 AM, Avery Payne wrote: This brings to mind the discussion from Jan. 8 about ./provides, where a defining a daemon implies: * the service that it actually provides (SMTP, IMAP, database, etc.); think of it as the doing, the piece that performs work * a data transport

Re: Could s6-scscan ignore non-servicedir folders?

2015-01-21 Thread Steve Litt
On Wed, 21 Jan 2015 18:24:58 +0100 Olivier Brunel j...@jjacky.com wrote: Hi Laurent, So you mentioned breaking compatibility recently, and I figure that might be a good time for me to mention something. I'd like to set up my system around s6, and have been working on this lately. I'll

Re: Could s6-scscan ignore non-servicedir folders?

2015-01-21 Thread Olivier Brunel
On 01/21/15 19:03, Steve Litt wrote: On Wed, 21 Jan 2015 18:24:58 +0100 Olivier Brunel j...@jjacky.com wrote: Hi Laurent, So you mentioned breaking compatibility recently, and I figure that might be a good time for me to mention something. I'd like to set up my system around s6, and have

Re: Could s6-scscan ignore non-servicedir folders?

2015-01-21 Thread Avery Payne
On 1/21/2015 7:19 PM, post-sysv wrote: I'm not sure what effective and worthwhile ways there are to express service *relationships*, however, or what that would exactly entail. I think service conflicts and service bindings might be flimsy to express without a formal system, though I don't

Re: Could s6-scscan ignore non-servicedir folders?

2015-01-21 Thread post-sysv
On 01/21/2015 06:09 PM, Wayne Marshall wrote: 4) in general, folks here are letting their panties get far too twisted with the dependency problem. Actual material dependencies are relatively few and can be easily (and best) accomodated directly in the runscript of the dependent service. See