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On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 12:14 PM, Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 11:18 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés <caneko@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> Be aware that /etc/init.d/functions.sh is still required by a lot of |
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>> things (gcc-config, python-updater, perl-cleaner, stuff like |
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>> that).They are trying to move that file to a more reasonable location; |
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>> I expect it to be done in five or six years. |
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> FYI - patches are welcome on that. I suspect that at some time we'll |
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> start pushing them through if maintainers drag their feet. This |
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> should be a pretty easy/safe change, but obviously we want to be |
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> careful since it seems to be fairly important packages that abuse this |
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> file. |
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There is a tracker bug for the packages still sourcing |
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/etc/init.d/functions.sh, instead of /lib/gentoo/functions.sh: |
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https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=504116 |
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My comment was tongue-in-cheek, although the change has taken years already. |
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> Once this is done users should be able to remove openrc safely if they |
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> aren't using it. At that point we might take up whether it makes |
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> sense to just make the init system like the |
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> bootloader/syslog/cron/kernel/etc in the handbook and have the user |
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> choose which one they want. |
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Looking forward to that. |
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Regards. |
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Canek Peláez Valdés |
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Profesor de asignatura, Facultad de Ciencias |
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Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México |
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