Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: should openrc be mandatory on all gentoo systems?

[Michał Górny]

On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 16:46:13 -0500
William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 12:56:32PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 10:57, William Hubbs wrote:
> > > The third option is for openrc to not install the
> > >  symbolic link at /etc/init.d/functions.sh since the code is
> > > actually at /lib/rc/functions.sh or /libexec/rc/functions.sh on
> > > the bsds. If I do that in openrc, that would mean that baselayout
> > > or another package would have to provide either a symbolic link in
> > >  /etc/init.d/functions.sh or a script there that provided the
> > > functions if openrc was not available.
> >
> > this sounds bad on multiple levels
>
> Ok, the option that I'm looking at now is to set up openrc so that the
> init scripts are optional and whether or not they are installed is
> controlled by a use flag which I will default to on in IUSE. Most
> people would leave this flag alone, but if you want to use something
> like systemd and do not want the init scripts or the /etc/runlevels
> directory on your system, you would just re-emerge
> openrc with this flag disabled.
>
> For now this flag will just control init scripts installation, but I
> will also look into taking it further and not installing other parts
> of openrc, such as binaries, man pages, etc which are only used if
> you are working on init scripts.
>
> Thoughts?

Wouldn't it be better to just leave these people with INSTALL_MASK?
USEflag means needless rebuilds just for the benefit of one file.

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Best regards,
Michał Górny