[gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: runlevels in runit

[Duncan]

William Hubbs posted on Mon, 24 Feb 2014 02:14:54 -0600 as excerpted:

>> Meanwhile, based on a decade plus of gentoo user experience, in
>> practice, emerge --config is obscure enough that using it in an ebuild
>> tends to hide it.

> Think of /etc/runit/runsvdir as being similar to /etc/runlevels in
> OpenRc.
> It is a directory that gets set up once, then only the admin should mess
> around in there by adding or removing directories (runlevels) and
> symbolic links to services.

Hmm... Then pkg_config does seem an appropriate "hiding" and the parallel 
to bind is even more striking.  IIRC, when it massively reorganized the 
chroot, it put an ewarn in pkg_postinst with some instructions, including 
asking people to re-run emerge --config bind.  IIRC it did NOT run that 
reconfigure itself.

Now making it a USE flag is a bit different, but the idea of making the 
function independent and simply calling it from both pkg_config and 
(conditionally on the use flag) pkg_postinst or whatever does seem 
reasonable to me.

And (as you may well be aware) I'd very likely disable that USE flag here 
(well, USE=-* and not enable it elsewhere), because my init setups tend 
to make rather complex use of advanced out of the ordinary corner-case 
features, thus the reason I ultimately ended up on openrc-9999 and 
generally git-logging every single change before I even install the 
update, let alone reboot.  But hey, I've found and reported a number of 
openrc bugs so they could be fixed before they ever appeared in a release 
over the years as a result, too. =:^)

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