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From: Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: new virtual for initscripts function
Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2011 17:58:11
Message-Id: 20110704175625.GG29104@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] rfc: new virtual for initscripts function by William Hubbs
1 On 04-07-2011 09:30:17 -0500, William Hubbs wrote:
2 > My goal with this virtual, once it is in the tree and keyworded
3 > everywhere, is to add it to profiles/base/packages so that it will be
4 > part of the system set. Then we could remove the PDEPEND from baselayout
5 > and we would still be assured that openrc will be installed everywhere
6 > by default. This would also be another step toward allowing users to
7 > remove openrc if they don't want it on their systems.
8 >
9 > Thoughts?
10
11 Just one little note, which is that Prefix is stuck with a modified
12 version of baselayout-1. If your virtual is going to make it possible
13 to have no openrc, or some openrc-light, then that would certainly
14 improve things from our perspective.
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18 Fabian Groffen
19 Gentoo on a different level

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