Re: [gentoo-dev] couple proposals (xinitrc.d and comatibility with RH-like init)

[Anton Starikov]

On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 10:29:54 +0200
Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o> wrote:

 > Current gdm and kdm support ${HOME}/.xprofile and /etc/xprofile that
> can be used for this. I don't know whether the default xinitrc
> supports them, but this is the way to go.
Yes, but set of scripts seems to be more flexible (compare sysv init
and bsd-like one) And allow to have predefined scripts installed with
software.
(Compare one huge /etc/profile that each ebuild should change (abstract
situation) and currrent env.d in gentoo)

> > 2) to implement some basic backward compatibility with SysV init
> > with RH-like style (/etc/rc.d/rcX.d). Just to add some service
> > (script) in gentoo-style for /etc/init.d which will start/stop
> > services from/etc/rc.d/rc5.d,  for example, when this service
> > start/stop. Because some programs(mostly comercial) use it by
> > default. Even when you merge Win4Lin from ebuild it still put
> > scripts in RH-like init. Of course you can rewrite them. but...it
> > seems that ebuild for something like"rhinit-compat" could be better
> > solution. In case when you use more than one program that use
> > RH-like init, and time to time make update of such programs. You
> > will avoid editing of scripts.
>
> The problem is that they are not really compatible. Using rh-style
> init together with gentoo init is a recipe for disaster.
>

Of course they are different. I didn't suggest to make it as standard 
part of gentoo. But usually it's painless to start rh-like scripts from
5th RH  runlevel on  gentoo default runlevel somewhere after xinetd (or
even just before local). so, it can be optional feature. Of course only
with very basic support only.

Anton.


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