Re: Oniro or Guix on Zephyr kernel?

[jbranso]

February 24, 2023 2:35 PM, "Tobias Geerinckx-Rice" <me@tobias.gr> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On 2023-02-24 19:36, Mitchell Schmeisser wrote:
> 
>> I don't think the guix daemon is technically > required
>> for the shepherd to boot (being the daemon is a shepherd process
>> itself).
> 
> No, not at all. I think this is a common (and not unreasonable!) assumption 
> we Guixers forget
> exists.
> 
> The ‘Guix daemon’ is not required to run Guix software or Guix System, only 
> for store operations
> (building, GC'ing, …).
> 
> The name ‘guix-build-daemon’ would have been closer to the truth.

Thanks for clarifying.  So, guix system requires a shepherd daemon to be 
running correct?

That shepherd daemon starts at boot and runs as PID 1 and starts all system 
services.

Does the guix-build-daemon start lazily or only when needed?  So if I booted up 
my guix system laptop, and only browsed
the internet, never typed in any "guix " command, would the guix-build-daemon 
ever run?


> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> T G-R
> 
> Sent from a Web browser. Excuse or enjoy my brevity.