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Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote: |
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> First, it doesn't sound like qmail actually requires daemontools, but |
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> simply happens to include a daemontools service config. |
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My understanding is that qmali contains a "daemon" which does not |
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daemonize itself. To my knowledge, you can start such a thing |
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only with daemontools and systemd; probably the start-daemon of |
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openrc is not powerful enough for this. |
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But you are right that even in this case an || dependency on |
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daemontools and systemd is questionable. |
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(However, this does not solve the OPs problem, because unless |
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you are an expert and write a systemd-script you will then |
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*want* to install daemontools and actually put it into your |
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world file.) |
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> Second, it sounds like daemontools requires openrc to run. |
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No. As I mentioned in another post, systems can run even without |
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any init-system, and there are two frequent use cases for this: |
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dedicated servers and embedded systems, e.g. used for fileserving, |
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firewalling, as log servers, or whatever. |
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On such systems, you might want just a shell script which starts |
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the serving daemons (e.g. using daemontools), and nothing more. |
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Perhaps you actually want a dedicated mail server which runs |
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only qmail and daemontools... |
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Moreover, even if you want an additional init-system, this need |
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not necessarily be openrc, but might also be runit or some other |
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system not in portage (I cannot recall the names, currently). |
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By the same argument you have given above, a dependency of |
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daemontools on some other init system (even a || dependency) |
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is questionable. |
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