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[–] linkert@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

How has been your runit experience in comparison? s6 looks interesting

It's dumb, rather silly in comparison and it does nothing other than keeping services going - on Void Linux you symlink your services from /etc/sv/{service-name} to /var/services/ and there it goes off doing its thing.

https://docs.voidlinux.org/config/services/index.html#basic-usage

Systemd could probably provide some fancy features on my system but it's a simple procrastination-station and so far I've not come up with anything I'm missing. Very happy camper.

(Lemmy is acting up for me)

[–] hfkldjbuq@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Seems pretty minimal and straightforward; nice. Are on GNU libc or musl?

[–] linkert@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Xbps <3

Did musl for a while, got tired of incompatibilities, have been running glibc for years now :)