Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: should openrc be mandatory on all gentoo systems?

[Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>]

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On Wednesday, June 29, 2011 22:19:09 Michał Górny wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 16:46:13 -0500 William Hubbs wrote:
> > Ok, the option that I'm looking at now is to set up openrc so that the
> > init scripts are optional and whether or not they are installed is
> > controlled by a use flag which I will default to on in IUSE. Most
> > people would leave this flag alone, but if you want to use something
> > like systemd and do not want the init scripts or the /etc/runlevels
> > directory on your system, you would just re-emerge
> > openrc with this flag disabled.
> > 
> > For now this flag will just control init scripts installation, but I
> > will also look into taking it further and not installing other parts
> > of openrc, such as binaries, man pages, etc which are only used if
> > you are working on init scripts.
> 
> Wouldn't it be better to just leave these people with INSTALL_MASK?
> USEflag means needless rebuilds just for the benefit of one file.

so you're saying the solution for systemd users is to setup INSTALL_MASK and 
we shouldnt worry about tweaking openrc at all ?
-mike

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