Re: [gentoo-dev] New USE flag 'daemontools' as an alternative to init.d

[Matt Thrailkill <xwred1@xwredwing.net>]

Is this effectively a new system of init-scripts?

If so.. I think it'd be cool to write some bsd-style init-scripts to add
to the variety.

On Tue, 9 Sep 2003 21:11:12 +0000
"Hallgrimur H. Gunnarsson" <hhg@data.is> wrote:

> Hello friends !
> 
> I'd like to propose a new USE flag.
> 
> On my systems I've added a 'daemontools' USE flag
> as an alternative to the current init.d for
> service management. To be a true metadistribution,
> it doesn't seem fair to let init.d have a monopoly
> on providing service management for packages.
> 
> For those who haven't heard of it before, daemontools
> is a process supervisor that can manage services.
> For more information see http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html
> 
> Integration of this functionality into ebuilds is in
> most cases very trivial. Packages that wish to
> provide daemontools USE flag support provide
> a 'run' file, that is copied to a service directory,
> /etc/daemontools/servicename, or something in that
> direction.  We could even have some automated facility
> for preparing service directories.
> 
> People can then choose what to use for running a particular
> service, /etc/init.d or linking the service directory into
> /service if the package provides daemontools support.
> 
> I've opened a bug for this (#28294), so what do people
> think of this?
> 
> -- hhg
> 
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