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On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 06:27:41AM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> RE you concerns about OpenRC being in @system. Personally I'm a fan |
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> of getting rid of @system entirely except as something used to build |
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> install CDs or having some sets for convenience in building systems. |
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> It only exists for a few reasons that I can think of: |
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> 1. Devs don't want to have ebuilds that capture dependencies on every |
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> little thing. A few well-chosen virtuals like "shell utilities" or |
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> whatever might help with this. |
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> 2. Things like Prefix rely on the system not installing local copies |
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> of libraries in the core system it needs to link to. Careful use of |
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> package.provided in profiles might address this. |
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> 3. We'd need many more virtuals to handle situations like FreeBSD |
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> where people don't what GNU on their systems. Right now if they are |
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> system packages they just define system appropriately and ebuilds |
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> don't directly pull in the GNU stuff anyway. |
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> I'm sure there could be others. Keep in mind that systemd is still |
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> pretty new and largely out-of-the-blue so it will take time for Gentoo |
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> to adjust to it. Right now OpenRC might install executables, but |
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> nothing should be actually running them - this is just wasted |
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> compilation time which isn't a bad interim state to be in. If |
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> virtualizing udev is causing controversy just wait until somebody |
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> actually makes a push to remove OpenRC from @system... |
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This isn't in the plans. OpenRC gets installed everywhere right now, |
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because it is a pdepend of baselayout. The plan is actually to tie it to |
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a virtual which will be added to @system; I just haven't gotten around |
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to doing this yet. [1] |
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William |
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[1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=409385 |
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