>> You could argue that there should be a separate flag in the service
>> state saying "not explicitly wanted, just currently up because of
>> dependencies", and that might be a good thing, but the current s6-rc
>> core does not support that.
>
>This is what I thought usable meant after reading the documentation.
That's valuable feedback, thanks. I updated the documentation, can
you please confirm that
https://www.skarnet.org/software/s6-rc/repodefs.html#rx is clearer now?
>else /* actually perform the state transition... I think */
Yes, that's what it does 😄
>After reading it again, I realize that I originally got that wrong and
>it really is "if it is a transition to the down state, this service is
>marked as essential, and GOLB_HIDEESSENTIALS is *not* set —it is for
>-D—, *don't* stop this service" 😅
Exactly. The joys of double negations!
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Laurent
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