Init system agnostic

[deviantsemicolon]

I was wondering if we should have runit as a default but add support for other init systems, since we don't have the NixOS module system holding us back?

[NotAShelf]

This is technically not too difficult of a task, we need a reasonable abstraction over the services module and rest would be smooth sailing.

Though, for the time being, I want to get everything working properly and then other init systems might be looked into.

[deviantsemicolon]

This is technically not too difficult of a task, we need a reasonable abstraction over the services module and rest would be smooth sailing.

Isn't there an RFC for a service layer thing in Nix? Or is that not the same thing?

[NotAShelf]

There is, but it doesn't quite apply to us... yet.

[DamitusThyYeetus123]

Currently, stage 1 is init system agnostic (as it just initialises mountpoints), but after we have a fully bootable and usable system, we could look into having a modular stage 2 (which runs the init system). If the right abstractions are put in place that shouldn’t be too difficult, as initialising the store and populating the necessary root directories is handled outside the init system. The primary thing to make it agnostic is a system and init system agnostic service module.