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On Sat, Jul 13, 2019 at 1:51 PM William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote: |
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> All, |
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> I removed virtual/daemontools from virtual/init because it doesn't |
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> appear to be an init process; it is just a service manager. |
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> Here is a list of the rdepends in my proposed virtual/init with |
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> comments. |
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> kernel_linux? ( |
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> || ( |
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> sys-apps/sysvinit |
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> # If I add an RDEPEND to sysvinit for sys-apps/openrc and remove |
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> # the rdepend on sysvinit from sys-apps/openrc, it will line up |
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> # sys-apps/sysvinit with the other inits below. |
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> # See below for why it is important that this one is first in |
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> # RDEPEND. |
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> sys-apps/systemd |
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> # This blocks sysvinit if the sysvinit-utils use flag is on, |
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> # which it is by default. |
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> # If you turn off the use flag, you get the same arrangement |
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> # you have with openrc right now. |
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> sys-apps/openrc |
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> # If I add a sysvinit-utils use flag here, but do *NOT* |
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> # force it on, it wouldn't remove sysvinit, so they could |
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> # co-exist and you would have to switch via the boot loader. |
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> # In fact, they already do co-exist. you have openrc-init |
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> # and openrc-shutdown on your system if you have openrc |
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> # installed. |
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> sys-process/runit |
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> # This one has an rdepend on openrc because it uses |
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> # openrc in its boot sequence even if you don't use it as |
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> # pid 1. |
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> # If you are not planning to use runit as pid 1, you would |
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> # need to set up the init you want to use with it (upstream |
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> # runit doesn't care which one you use, so I don't think I |
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> # should either) to stay around by |
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> # using something like: |
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> # emerge --noreplace init-app |
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> # to add it to the world file. |
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> ) |
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> ) |
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> kernel_FreeBSD? ( |
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> sys-freebsd/freebsd-bin |
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> ) |
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> Another reason for virtual/init is, if I drop the |
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> sys-apps/sysvinit rdepend from sys-apps/openrc, sysvinit will not be |
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> installed by default any longer, so I would want to add this virtual |
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> to the base profile with sysvinit listed first to make sure nothing is |
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> broken. Mike, I don't see how this would conflict with systemd. |
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Sorry, but this virtual still seems a bit pointless to me. You could |
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accomplish the same thing with an optional dependency expression in |
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sys-apps/openrc. |
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A virtual package is not the right solution here. |
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