Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: openrc use flag

[William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org>]

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On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 08:20:32PM +0200, Pacho Ramos wrote:
> El mié, 20-04-2011 a las 22:02 +0400, Peter Volkov escribió:
> > В Срд, 20/04/2011 в 12:24 -0500, William Hubbs пишет:
> > > The author of the bug feels that the way to fix this is for us to put a
> > > check in openrc that makes it refuse to run services if it was not used
> > > in the boot process.
> > 
> > This is good idea to have in any case since I remember my system went
> > crazy after I've tried to start some service inside chroot.
> > 
> > > This may work; however, I do not feel that it addresses the root cause
> > > of the bug. I feel that the root cause is packages unconditionally
> > > installing udev rules which assume everyone uses openrc.
> > 
> > I'd voted to have both implemented.
> > 
> 
> I would vote for the first one, I still don't like "openrc" USE flag
> approach much because:
> 1. Would need to rebuild some packages when switching between init
> systems.

I don't think you can get away from this, no matter how you approach
it. The other approach I thought of is to include the udev pieces
directly in openrc and make it possible to build openrc with or without
udev integration. That will still mean you have to rebuild openrc though
if you want udev support.

> 2. I remember (from "logrotate" USE flag case) that using an USE flag
> for simply installing or not a file is not usually preferred :-/

In the logrotate use flag case, that decision was made because a user
can use INSTALL_MASK="/etc/logrotate.d" in make.conf to block those
files. But that argument definitely does not apply here. If the user
doesn't want this support what should he set INSTALL_MASK to?
 
 William


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