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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: should openrc be mandatory on all gentoo systems?
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 03:48:52
Message-Id: 201106292347.42829.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: should openrc be mandatory on all gentoo systems? by "Michał Górny"
1 On Wednesday, June 29, 2011 22:19:09 Michał Górny wrote:
2 > On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 16:46:13 -0500 William Hubbs wrote:
3 > > Ok, the option that I'm looking at now is to set up openrc so that the
4 > > init scripts are optional and whether or not they are installed is
5 > > controlled by a use flag which I will default to on in IUSE. Most
6 > > people would leave this flag alone, but if you want to use something
7 > > like systemd and do not want the init scripts or the /etc/runlevels
8 > > directory on your system, you would just re-emerge
9 > > openrc with this flag disabled.
10 > >
11 > > For now this flag will just control init scripts installation, but I
12 > > will also look into taking it further and not installing other parts
13 > > of openrc, such as binaries, man pages, etc which are only used if
14 > > you are working on init scripts.
15 >
16 > Wouldn't it be better to just leave these people with INSTALL_MASK?
17 > USEflag means needless rebuilds just for the benefit of one file.
18
19 so you're saying the solution for systemd users is to setup INSTALL_MASK and
20 we shouldnt worry about tweaking openrc at all ?
21 -mike

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