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

["Hallgrimur H. Gunnarsson" <hhg@data.is>]

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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