Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: making sysvinit optional

[William Hubbs]

All,

I removed virtual/daemontools from virtual/init because it doesn't
appear to be an init process; it is just a service manager.

Here is a list of the rdepends in my proposed virtual/init with
comments.

		kernel_linux? (
		|| (
		sys-apps/sysvinit
		# If I add an RDEPEND to sysvinit for sys-apps/openrc and remove
		# the rdepend on sysvinit from sys-apps/openrc, it will line up
		# sys-apps/sysvinit with the other inits below.
		# See below for why it is important that this one is first in
		# RDEPEND.
			sys-apps/systemd
			# This blocks sysvinit if the sysvinit-utils use flag is on,
			# which it is by default.
			# If you turn off the use flag, you get the same arrangement
			# you have with openrc right now.
			sys-apps/openrc
			# If I add a sysvinit-utils use flag here, but do *NOT*
			# force it on, it wouldn't remove sysvinit, so they could
			# co-exist and you would have to switch via the boot loader.
			# In fact, they already do co-exist. you have openrc-init
			# and openrc-shutdown on your system if you have openrc
			# installed.
			sys-process/runit
			# This one has an rdepend on openrc because it uses
			# openrc in its boot sequence even if you don't use it as
			# pid 1.
			# If you are not planning to use runit as pid 1, you would
			# need to set up the init you want to use with it (upstream
			# runit doesn't care which one you use, so I don't think I
			# should either) to stay around by
			# using  something like:
			# emerge --noreplace init-app
			# to add it to the world file.
	)
	)
	kernel_FreeBSD? (
		sys-freebsd/freebsd-bin
	)

Another reason for virtual/init is, if I drop the
sys-apps/sysvinit rdepend from sys-apps/openrc, sysvinit will not be
installed by default any longer, so I would want to add this virtual
to the base profile with sysvinit listed first to make sure nothing is
broken. Mike, I don't see how this would conflict with systemd.