On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 10:23 PM, John Wiegley <jo...@newartisans.com> wrote:
> >>>>> Wout Mertens <wout.mert...@gmail.com> writes: > > > I think there is room for improvement for installing and using nixpkgs on > > another distribution. > > > I see two big problems: > > 1. installation > > 2. environment variables > > Also: setting up services to run when the system boots. For example, > Homebrew > tells you how to add a symlinks in ~/Library/LaunchAgents so that > PostgreSQL > can start when the machine boots (it simply prints the command to the > terminal > as an informational message). We can do the same thing with Nix, it's > just a > question of informing the user how. > > Is there anybody that knows how to set up systemd as non-PID-1 but still as root? That would be awesome++, I could turn my Ubuntu 12.04 servers into lean mean partially Nix-based service running machines. Obviously systemd would then have to not do things that udev etc are already doing... Just running services, opening sockets, handling cgroups... Wout.
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