From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F26231381F3 for ; Sat, 25 May 2013 12:14:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B7C55E0B4F; Sat, 25 May 2013 12:14:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CD564E0B43 for ; Sat, 25 May 2013 12:13:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.4.5] (blfd-4d082158.pool.mediaWays.net [77.8.33.88]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: hasufell) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 611B933DF72 for ; Sat, 25 May 2013 12:13:58 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <51A0AB02.1020004@gentoo.org> Date: Sat, 25 May 2013 14:13:54 +0200 From: hasufell User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130517 Thunderbird/17.0.6 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] eselect init References: <51A08A68.3020900@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <51A08A68.3020900@gentoo.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6a1pre Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: b7262308-aa70-4a86-b6aa-968c0b9181a0 X-Archives-Hash: 90ec191a65916ef5d1dcd7cadc8a159e Isn't eselect for cases where I might want to reconfigure something or add configuration values such as for bash-completion, do testing with java-vm or python implementations during development, switch opengl implementation depending on the graphics driver loaded and whatnot. I don't see any of this applying to init system, nor do I see a reason to randomly switch between those. It's rather something to configure during installation, so I'd rather expect proper documentation. But I am not opposing, I just find it weird.