Re: [gentoo-user] sinit (suckless init) + daemontools-encore on Gentoo

[Jack <ostroffjh@users.sourceforge.net>]

On 2024.11.05 20:44, Eduardo Santos wrote:
> I searched for sinit on the gentoo-user archives and couldn't find
> anything, there's only a few Reddit threads which don't help much.  
> Would it
> be possible to follow the steps here[1] to use sinit +  
> daemontools-encore
> on Gentoo, or are there hard dependencies on OpenRC that make this
> impossible?
> 
> This is completely for fun. I'm aware of discussions of this init vs.  
> that
> init and I don't hate systemd/OpenRC or anything like that. Again,  
> this is
> just for fun.
> 
> I'm willing to do a lot of work myself to make this work, but if  
> Portage or
> some other core Gentoo subsystem doesn't play well with sinit or
> daemontools-encore it'd be just a waste of time.
> 
> [1] https://troubleshooters.com/linux/diy/suckless_init_on_plop.html

If Gentoo had a hard dep on ANY init system, it is likely the other  
init systems would have problems running under Gentoo.  (Also, remember  
that just because something is installed doesn't necessarily mean it  
has to run.)  While I don't think anyone can guarantee you won't run  
into any problems, I can't think of any reason what you want to do  
shouldn't work.  It sounds like a very interesting exercise, although I  
might try it in a virtual machine first, as they suggest, even if you  
use Gentoo instead of Plop.  Let us know how it works.