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

[Olivier Crête]

Hi,

On Tue, 2011-06-28 at 17:10 -0500, William Hubbs wrote:
> The background is that /etc/init.d/functions.sh is a link to
> /lib/rc/functions.sh, which is part of openrc.
>
> Other init systems, like systemd, are coming along which completely
> replace sysvinit and do not use openrc's init scripts at all. However,
> since things other than init scripts are using /etc/init.d/functions.sh,
> all gentoo users are forced to have openrc on their systems whether they
> use its init scripts or not.
>
> As you can see in the bug, I am working on creating a
> minimalist version of openrc that can be installed to allow users to
> have access to the functions that are in functions.sh regardless of
> whether or not they are using openrc's init system.
>
> I'm not convinced that this is the best approach, so any input would be
> greatly appreciated.

As long as we have Gentoo-style init scripts in the tree, we will need
these functions to be available. So yes, they should probably be in a
separate package from openrc itself to ease the transition to the bright
systemd future.

-- 
Olivier Crête
tester@g.o
Gentoo Developer