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From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: runlevels in runit
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 05:57:53
Message-Id: pan$897f7$25797e8c$d0bb5b6d$b12b5a22@cox.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: runlevels in runit by William Hubbs
1 William Hubbs posted on Mon, 24 Feb 2014 17:15:51 -0600 as excerpted:
2
3 > The /etc/runit/runsvdir directory is purely optional actually. It is
4 > upstream's recommended way to set up runit to support runlevels if runit
5 > is replacing sysvinit. However, a user can set up the service directory
6 > on their own.
7 >
8 > So I'm wondering if it is reasonable to just provide instructions to
9 > users to run emerge --config?
10
11 I'd suggest either checking with id10r (bind maintainer) or just checking
12 the bugs filed after the bind change, to see how users reacted to just
13 the pkg_postinst notice saying to run --config. If it worked well there,
14 without undo numbers of bugs as a result...
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