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On Mon, 2012-08-06 at 20:28 +0200, Fabian Groffen wrote: |
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> On 06-08-2012 11:16:52 -0700, Olivier Crête wrote: |
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> > On Mon, 2012-08-06 at 13:56 +0200, Fabian Groffen wrote: |
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> > > While OpenRC is likely perfectly capable of starting/stopping daemons as |
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> > > a normal user (with some tweaks), I expect systemd replacing init, to |
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> > > already have a fair bit of isssues with being just a normal unprivileged |
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> > > user. I may be wrong, of course. However, the notorious reputation of |
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> > > that piece of software aiming for system-domination doesn't really make |
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> > > it sound to me like it ever will be a good match for Prefix. |
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> > |
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> > You happen to be wrong. systemd runs perfectly as non-pid-1. Part of |
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> > Lennart's well published plan for world domination is to use systemd as |
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> > a session manager, so it would replace gnome-session, etc. Lennart & |
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> > friends are currently pushing kernel patches to make it fully recursive |
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> > (such as being able to re-parent orphaned processes to the session's |
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> > systemd instead of the global one. |
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> Good to know that I'm wrong. I didn't know they pursued world |
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> domination too. I wonder how "kernel patches" go well together with |
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> "being in an environment unknown to you, or that you cannot control at |
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> all", though. Seems there is interest for it to support Prefix then. |
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> Looking forward to patches and solutions to complement the challenges of |
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> this year's GSoC task. |
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I think they only want to support systemd-in-systemd, not |
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systemd-in-random-init-system. |
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Olivier Crête |
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tester@g.o |
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Gentoo Developer |
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