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

[Michał Górny]

On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 23:47:42 -0400
Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o> wrote:

> On Wednesday, June 29, 2011 22:19:09 Michał Górny wrote:
> > On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 16:46:13 -0500 William Hubbs wrote:
> > > 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.
> >
> > Wouldn't it be better to just leave these people with INSTALL_MASK?
> > USEflag means needless rebuilds just for the benefit of one file.
>
> so you're saying the solution for systemd users is to setup
> INSTALL_MASK and we shouldnt worry about tweaking openrc at all ?

Have you even heard the word called 'context'? It might be too short
for your taste.

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Best regards,
Michał Górny