Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: renaming "rc" binary in OpenRC

[Paul Tagliamonte]

[I'm not the OpenRC maintainer, I'm only on gentoo-devel because I'm
 generally interested, and I saw this, I'm not speaking for zigo or
 anything here.]

On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 03:47:57PM -0500, Chris Reffett wrote:
>    The idea of running a sed on inittab in an ebuild, no matter what the
>    context, terrifies me. Perhaps we can ease this in slowly by renaming rc
>    -> openrc and symlinking rc -> openrc and making a release with that
>    change concurrent with a news item? Or even just do that in the ebuild
>    rather than in the actual sources. I don't think Debian will keel over and
>    die if it takes a little extra time for the change to go through, and it
>    beats a ton of broken systems.
>
>    Chris Reffett

Hi, Gentoo (and hello world),

I'm breaking my streak of lurking to comment generally on the Debian
procedure here.

I'm sure the Debian folks would be happy to strip the symlink from the
deb over having to patch OpenRC's rc binary => openrc against the
upstream source.

Shipping /usr/bin/rc => /usr/bin/openrc would be totally cool for
Debian, I believe. Hopefully the OpenRC team will come in and correct me
if I'm wrong :)

Fondly,
  Paul

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