@ariadne @sertonix the problem with dbus service activation is that dbus is horrible; "service activation" in itself is just on-demand service start, which is reasonable and possible if you couple a supervisor with an event listener. The difficult part of this is dependency management: what do you do if service A is started on-demand but depends on service B? Do you also start service B? recursively? etc.

A lot of issues I have with s6-rc v1 could disappear instantly if we decided that dependencies are not a real thing, and that events can trigger service-local state change. Then I could just couple an event listener with s6 and be done with it!