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After chatting with Rich a bit, I'm going to reply here. |
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On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 08:17:17PM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 8:03 PM William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote: |
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> > On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 07:30:57PM -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote: |
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> > > On 7/10/19 7:16 PM, William Hubbs wrote: |
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> > > > 3. add a sysvinit use flag to openrc, which will be off by default. When |
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> > > > it is on, openrc will block sysvinit since it will provide /sbin/init |
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> > > > and /sbin/shutdown. |
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> > > > |
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> > > This logic, or maybe the name of the flag, sounds backwards to me. I |
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> > > only get sysvinit when USE=sysvinit is NOT set? |
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> > If you don't set sys-apps/openrc[sysvinit], you would have /sbin/init |
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> > and /sbin/shutdown as they are now, from sys-apps/sysvinit. |
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> Systemd already has IUSE=+sysv-utils which has a similar function: |
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> [- ] sysv-utils |
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> sys-apps/systemd: Install sysvinit compatibility symlinks and |
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> manpages for init, telinit, halt, poweroff, reboot, runlevel, and |
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> shutdown |
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Actually, I like the name sysv-utils for this use flag; that seems to |
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describe better what it does. |
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> RDEPEND="sysv-utils? ( !sys-apps/sysvinit ) |
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> !sysv-utils? ( sys-apps/sysvinit )" |
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I like this, but the second branch (!sysv-utils) is not really needed, |
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because if we put sysvinit as the first RDEPEND of virtual/init, we |
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don't need to worry about installing it through rdepend in openrc. We |
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can also add sys-apps/openrc as an rdepend of sys-apps/sysvinit |
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possibly. I'll take a look at that. |
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> sysv-utils seems like a generic enough flag and I'd suggest that it |
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> would be appropriate to use for openrc as well if it can install its |
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> own implementation of these tools. |
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This is where I want to go. I don't want to install the openrc |
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implementations by default, because I want to make it easy to dual-boot |
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a system, like what systemd does by default if you don't have the |
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sysv-utils use flag turned on. |
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> (For those who aren't aware, systemd is compatible with the sysvinit |
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> versions of these tools, so you can run systemd with sysvinit |
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> installed.) |
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> -- |
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> Rich |
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