[gentoo-dev] rfc: renaming "rc" binary in OpenRC

[William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org>]

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All,

We got a request from Debian to rename the "rc" binary of OpenRC due to
a naming conflict they have. They have a port of the at&t plan 9 shell,
which has a binary named "rc" as well[1].

My thought is to rename our "rc" to "openrc", since that would be
unique.

I know at least one thing that will break is everyone's inittab, so
should I sed their inittab in our live ebuild or expect them to fix it
and give a warning? I know that once OpenRC with this change is
released, it will need to probably be p.masked until there is a new
release of sysvinit that updates the inittab.

I'm not sure what else will break.

Does anyone have any ideas wrt other things to look for, or should I
make the changes upstream and have people let us know what
else breaks?

William

[1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=493958

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