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Re:GNU Shepherd by michaelmrose on Saturday June 03, 2017 @03:12PM (#14477931)
Regarding edit 2: Using a non turing complete language results in hacks to attain the flexibility that would have been provided by the more powerful language.
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Re:GNU Shepherd by Slackwise on Saturday June 03, 2017 @05:14PM (#14478537)
And that was kind of the whole point with GuixSD and Shepard.

Nix has limited "Nix-expressions" which resulted in a bunch of bash scripts to get around the limitations, and Systemd ends up requiring C services or bash scripts because it has a limited INI-like syntax. On the opposite end, GuixSD is entirely configured, packaged, and maintained with Guile.

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