Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] systemd.eclass: Patch for new function systemd_get_udevdir()

["Olivier Crête" <tester@gentoo.org>]

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On Mon, 2012-08-06 at 20:28 +0200, Fabian Groffen wrote:
> On 06-08-2012 11:16:52 -0700, Olivier Crête wrote:
> > On Mon, 2012-08-06 at 13:56 +0200, Fabian Groffen wrote:
> > > While OpenRC is likely perfectly capable of starting/stopping daemons as
> > > a normal user (with some tweaks), I expect systemd replacing init, to
> > > already have a fair bit of isssues with being just a normal unprivileged
> > > user.  I may be wrong, of course.  However, the notorious reputation of
> > > that piece of software aiming for system-domination doesn't really make
> > > it sound to me like it ever will be a good match for Prefix.
> > 
> > You happen to be wrong. systemd runs perfectly as non-pid-1. Part of
> > Lennart's well published plan for world domination is to use systemd as
> > a session manager, so it would replace gnome-session, etc. Lennart &
> > friends are currently pushing kernel patches to make it fully recursive
> > (such as being able to re-parent orphaned processes to the session's
> > systemd instead of the global one.
> 
> Good to know that I'm wrong.  I didn't know they pursued world
> domination too.  I wonder how "kernel patches" go well together with
> "being in an environment unknown to you, or that you cannot control at
> all", though.  Seems there is interest for it to support Prefix then.
> Looking forward to patches and solutions to complement the challenges of
> this year's GSoC task.

I think they only want to support systemd-in-systemd, not
systemd-in-random-init-system.

-- 
Olivier Crête
tester@gentoo.org
Gentoo Developer

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