@dalias @ariadne @sertonix Using systemd service files is *right out*, because service files are completely global to the system; only a very restricted subset of the directives are service-local. I have done a thorough analysis of systemd.service(5) directives here: https://skarnet.org/software/s6/unit-conversion.html

What I'm aiming for is a similar, but much more restricted declarative syntax. And that isn't even hard to do (just terribly boring), the really difficult part is the underlying engine, having something that can react to dynamic events while still guaranteeing bootability and not being trivially amenable to a broken machine state like systemd and openrc are.

Maybe I'm too old-fashioned, but I really want to figure out the engine before slapping an interface onto it. Not doing that is why we have problems with openrc.