Comment by chuckadams
1 month ago
It's entirely possible that both SysV init and systemd suck for different reasons. I'm still partial to systemd since it takes care of daemons and supervision in a way that init does not, but I'll take s6 or process-compose or even supervisord if I have to. Horses for courses.
I want to love s6 but every time I see the existence of s6-rc-compile I get heated. I'm sure there are excellent reasons behind it but I personally don't want services to work that way.
Yah, that does look awfully baroque. My experience with s6 has largely been minor tweaks to an existing setup where the complexity was hidden away from me. I used to use runit for managing daemons, but nowadays my supervisor of choice is docker compose. process-compose does look enticing though, and the Nix world seems pretty fond of it.