On Sun, 2 Jun 2013 20:37:57 -0400 "Walter Dnes" wrote: > On Mon, Jun 03, 2013 at 12:35:29AM +0200, Luca Barbato wrote > > > - eselect init will be opt-in ***FOR THE TIME BEING***, people can > > be left on their own tools if the want it > > This statement should bring the same reaction as the posting that > udev source was being rolled into the systemd tarball. It implies > that eselect init will eventually become mandatory. How does it imply that? Do you see anyone pursuing it to be mandatory? > Your situation is a special use-case, i.e. a developer who wants to > switch between a "production" init system, and a "test" init system, > possibly multiple times a day. You're a developer, you know which > files to change, put together your own scripts, and run them as > necessary. Set up your own overlay and write your own eselect init > ebuild. No problem. But why should this eventually be a part of > mainstream Gentoo? Because most Gentoo users are developers. > BTW, I'm a bigger fan of busybox than most Gentoo users. Remember > the announcement of systemd/udev tarball integration, and supposed > deprecation of a separate /usr? I was the ****-disturber who started > up the https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Mdev wiki page on how to replace > udev with mdev. I also did a page on automounting at... > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Mdev/Automount_USB/automount Having said > that, I don't see how busybox development justifies an additional > layer of complexity for everybody's bootup. Great, but that's mostly irrelevant to this ML thread; the need for such articles is a result of not being able to do it in a more proper way. -- With kind regards, Tom Wijsman (TomWij) Gentoo Developer E-mail address : TomWij@gentoo.org GPG Public Key : 6D34E57D GPG Fingerprint : C165 AF18 AB4C 400B C3D2 ABF0 95B2 1FCD 6D34 E57D