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From: William Hubbs <williamh@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] eselect init
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2013 14:37:11
Message-Id: 20130621143657.GA26044@linux1
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] eselect init by Luca Barbato
1 On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 01:50:02PM +0200, Luca Barbato wrote:
2 > On 06/21/2013 01:26 PM, Pacho Ramos wrote:
3 > > Thanks for the explanation. But I think that, currently, the only
4 > > remaining "objection" is whether play with /sbin/init (that needs
5 > > sysvinit to be changed if I don't misremember) or with /sbin/einit.
6 > > Looks like mgorny has shown some problems on relying on "einit" instead
7 > > of plain "init" regarding to fallback :/
8 >
9 > I prefer having /sbin/init used for the pivot since /sbin/einit is a bit
10 > more brittle and as Fabio did the whole machinery is _still_ opt-in.
11
12 No, he has his own versions of the systemd and sysvinit ebuilds which
13 move some of the installation to non-standard places as part of this
14 machinery, so it is not opt-in.
15
16 Also, there was an email on this thread showing that using
17 init=/sbin/einit works, so I'm not seeing what mgorny's objections are.
18
19 William

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