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

[William Hubbs]

Hi Paul and everyone,

On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 11:04:04AM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 08:58, Paul de Vrieze wrote:
> > Why can't we just split up functions.sh into "/lib/output.sh"
>
> we're not changing the file name

I just made a case on the bug for having a separate package called
gentoo-base-functions which contains a script called
/etc/init.d/functions.sh which would be smart enough to use openrc if it
is available and provide the functions if it is not [1]. Please take a
look and comment.

William

[1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=373219#C31