This may not be helpful at all but inspired by this discussion, I’ve hacked together a really crude one-off prototype for a lightweight implementation of presets.

It uses one custom formula per preset, runs with homebrew-services as-is, and requires nothing else. Because it’s just a formula, it also auto-detects the dependencies.

Usage:

brew tap claui/services-bulk

brew install myservers

[sudo] brew services list

[sudo] brew services [start | restart | stop] myservers

To customize, just change this array:

  DEPENDENT_SERVICES = [
    "mariadb",
    "nginx",
    "php",
  ]

I’m surprised to see this actually works for me. Feel free to use it as a stop-gap until someone builds something more maintainable. (Or maybe in case the presets feature turns out too narrow to be added to homebrew-services proper.)

Thank you @claui, I'll give it a shot soon. Looks promising!

This is a good idea, thanks for the detailed write up @ihorvorotnov!

@steinmb Your comment was completely unrelated to this repository. The other thread was locked for a reason.

@MikeMcQuaid Thank you for getting back to me, though deleting comments is to me a unusual way of treating other developers. Ended up there because other issues got closed and linked in here. Should I create a separate issue regarding the dependency issue?

@steinmb No, we are not interested in more discussion of that issue or of Homebrew's moderation policy with non-maintainers or non-contributors (particularly when Homebrew's maintainers are currently being barraged with personal abuse).

@MikeMcQuaid Sorry to hear that. Take care and thank you for all your hard work.

httpd will not be installed any more if you use the bottle: Homebrew/homebrew-core#24907