But doesn't daemontools itself use an initscript anyway? I suppose you 
just want this to be used in a way similar to how it works with qmail 
and djbdns? It's an interesting idea, but (excuse my ignorance on this) 
I don't really see what positive impact it will have on the system. Feel 
free to insult and enlighten me!

Hallgrimur H. Gunnarsson wrote:

>Hello friends !
>
>I'd like to propose a new USE flag.
>
>On my systems I've added a 'daemontools' USE flag
>as an alternative to the current init.d for
>service management. To be a true metadistribution,
>it doesn't seem fair to let init.d have a monopoly
>on providing service management for packages.
>
>For those who haven't heard of it before, daemontools
>is a process supervisor that can manage services.
>For more information see http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html
>
>Integration of this functionality into ebuilds is in
>most cases very trivial. Packages that wish to
>provide daemontools USE flag support provide
>a 'run' file, that is copied to a service directory,
>/etc/daemontools/servicename, or something in that
>direction.  We could even have some automated facility
>for preparing service directories.
>
>People can then choose what to use for running a particular
>service, /etc/init.d or linking the service directory into
>/service if the package provides daemontools support.
>
>I've opened a bug for this (#28294), so what do people
>think of this?
>
>-- hhg
>
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