Le mercredi 13 novembre 2019, 19:23:43 CET Kete via Discussions about the development of the GNU system a écrit : > I disagree that they betrayed RMS. I still like the Guix contributors, > probably even more now. Your systemd statement is confusing because they > made their own service program called shepherd.
To be precise, GNU Shepherd is the continuation of an old init software originally called GNU DMD, written in Scheme, that was intended to provide init system to the Hurd before Guix and systemd existed (and happened to already provide some of the best features of systemd (like dependency graph, parallelism, etc.) GNU dmd was never intended for the Hurd, it was far more general in spirit. One of the goals was that each user should be able to manage daemons, and give back some of the closed garden that is the init system. I also don't think that shepherd is a better name, dmd far better describes the intent Wolfgang and I had when we wrote and designed it. Infact, most of the commands now make little sense...
