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

[Michał Górny]

On Thu, 30 Jun 2011 17:16:14 -0400
Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o> wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 17:14, Michał Górny wrote:
> > On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 23:47:42 -0400 Mike Frysinger 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.
>
> perhaps if you focused less on being snarky and more on the thread
> content, you'd realize that the context here is "providing
> /etc/init.d/functions.sh support for non-openrc users".  that was the
> point of William's e-mail that is at the start of this current
> "context".

And if you focused more on reading what others write, you'd realize
that the whole citation here mentions only installing init.d scripts
and /etc/runlevels?

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny