Re: Service refactoring

[Ludovic Courtès]

Andy Wingo <address@hidden> skribis:

> On Sun 20 Sep 2015 15:42, address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>
>> I’m quite happy with the result, but comments are welcome!  I’ll convert
>> some more services to see how it goes.
>
> Neat!  Sounds great.  One question: there are some services like colord
> or geoclue that don't need to be managed by DMD, but are just declared
> as services so that their users are created, there /var/foo directories
> are created, etc.  The can be started by D-Bus as needed.  Does the new
> design support services of this kind?

Yes it does.

‘colord’ will “extend” the D-Bus service by giving it its package object
(thus its .service files), it will extend the activation service by
providing it #~(mkdir "/var/foo"), and it will extend the account
service by passing it its user accounts/groups.

We’re getting there.  :-)

Ludo’.