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From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Detecting Baselayout2/openrc - no-symlink profiles leading to breakage
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 07:17:26
Message-Id: pan.2009.01.18.07.17.05@cox.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Detecting Baselayout2/openrc - no-symlink profiles leading to breakage by Friedrich Oslage
1 Friedrich Oslage <bluebird@g.o> posted 49726F21.8010004@g.o,
2 excerpted below, on Sun, 18 Jan 2009 00:52:01 +0100:
3
4 > Why not teach /sbin/runscript it's own version? With something like this
5 > we could also do stuff depending on a specific version of openrc:
6
7 I happened to read the OP right before I headed in to work today, and
8 thus had some time to think it over. This was the exact same idea I came
9 up with and was going to post it if someone hadn't, when I got back. You
10 beat me to it! =:^)
11
12 In fact, if Roy hasn't instituted something like this already upstream,
13 I'd be surprised if he doesn't take the idea and run with it as well, as
14 it's certainly convenient functionality to have and expose, and I can
15 think of all sorts of reasons it might come in handy and no reason not to
16 do it.
17
18 --
19 Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs.
20 "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master --
21 and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman