Re: shepherd: prefix output with service names?

[Attila Lendvai]

> What do you think of prefixing every line with the name of the service
> that is responsible for it? This way we could probably also
> prettify/post-process the output somewhat.


just a general warning here:

errors in the processing of output that resulted in some error messages getting 
silently swallowed by the infrastructure has cost me countless hours of 
unnecessary debugging.

i have already experienced this in multiple places also in the Guix codebase.

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