Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: making sysvinit optional

[William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org>]

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On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 04:48:46PM -0500, William Hubbs wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 03:25:28PM -0500, William Hubbs wrote:
> > All,
> > 
> > I have this bug against openrc:
> > 
> > https://bugs.gentoo.org/599468
> > 
> > The reason for the hard dependency on sysvinit in OpenRC no longer
> > exists since we now have a replacement for killall5, and some people
> > want to use openrc and remove sysvinit from their systems.
> > 
> > Before I drop the dependency on sysvinit from OpenRC, we need a way to
> > install both but not force sysvinit to be installed if someone removes
> > it later.
> > 
> > Does anyone have any ideas wrt how to do this?
> 
> Someone suggested that we need virtual/init, so I will take a look at
> that possibility.

I am attaching my first crack at virtual/init.
This is a virtual for packages which provide some kind of init process.

If no one has responded in 48-72 hours, I will do the following:

1. add this to the tree
2. add it to profiles/base/packages.
3. add a sysvinit use flag to openrc, which will be off by default. When
it is on, openrc will block sysvinit since it will provide /sbin/init
and /sbin/shutdown.

Thoughts?

William


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# Copyright 1999-2019 Gentoo Authors
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2

EAPI=7

DESCRIPTION="Virtual for various init processes"
SLOT="0"
KEYWORDS="alpha amd64 arm arm64 hppa ia64 m68k ~mips ppc ppc64 ~riscv s390 sh sparc x86 ~amd64-fbsd ~x86-fbsd"
IUSE="kernel_FreeBSD kernel_linux"

RDEPEND="
		kernel_linux? (
		|| (
		sys-apps/sysvinit
			sys-apps/systemd
			sys-apps/openrc
			sys-process/runit
			virtual/daemontools
	)
	)
	kernel_FreeBSD? (
		sys-freebsd/freebsd-bin
	)"

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