Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: should openrc be mandatory on all gentoo systems?

[Mike Frysinger]

On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 17:14, Michał Górny wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 23:47:42 -0400 Mike Frysinger wrote:
>> On Wednesday, June 29, 2011 22:19:09 Michał Górny wrote:
>> > On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 16:46:13 -0500 William Hubbs wrote:
>> > > Ok, the option that I'm looking at now is to set up openrc so
>> > > that the init scripts are optional and whether or not they are
>> > > installed is controlled by a use flag which I will default to on
>> > > in IUSE. Most people would leave this flag alone, but if you want
>> > > to use something like systemd and do not want the init scripts or
>> > > the /etc/runlevels directory on your system, you would just
>> > > re-emerge openrc with this flag disabled.
>> > >
>> > > For now this flag will just control init scripts installation,
>> > > but I will also look into taking it further and not installing
>> > > other parts of openrc, such as binaries, man pages, etc which are
>> > > only used if you are working on init scripts.
>> >
>> > Wouldn't it be better to just leave these people with INSTALL_MASK?
>> > USEflag means needless rebuilds just for the benefit of one file.
>>
>> so you're saying the solution for systemd users is to setup
>> INSTALL_MASK and we shouldnt worry about tweaking openrc at all ?
>
> Have you even heard the word called 'context'? It might be too short
> for your taste.

perhaps if you focused less on being snarky and more on the thread
content, you'd realize that the context here is "providing
/etc/init.d/functions.sh support for non-openrc users".  that was the
point of William's e-mail that is at the start of this current
"context".
-mike