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Comment by stock_toaster

13 hours ago

It will be interesting to compare this to dinit[1], which is used by chimera-linux.

Giving the readme a brief scan, it doesn't look like it currently handles service dependencies?

[1]: https://github.com/davmac314/dinit

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nine_k  13 hours ago

Nitro does not declaratively handle service dependencies, you cannot get a neat graph of them in one command.

You can still request other services to start in your setup script, and expect nitro to wait and retry starting your service when the dependent service is running. To get a nice graph, you can write a simple script using grep. OTOH it's easy to forget to require the shutdown of the dependent services when your service goes down, and there's no way to discover it using a nitro utility.