On Wed, 29 May 2013 15:55:23 -0500
William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org> wrote:

> > We want to make this easier towards the user, therefore doing heavy
> > discussion to exhaust all the alternatives and maybe someone's
> > interested in implementing one of them that appears most feasible.
> 
> Since users can already do this, why are we bothering with
> re-inventing the wheel? How does running an eselect init command make
> it easier for the user than telling them to edit their boot loader
> config file?
>
> Gentoo users are expected to build their kernel and write their boot
> loader config file initially, so why are we trying to dumb this down?

For the same reason we have all the other eselect modules.

http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/eselect/

Ironically, that project description even mentions init system... :)

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