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 30D4D1381F4 for ; Fri, 17 Aug 2012 05:34:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1B52EE06CC; Fri, 17 Aug 2012 05:34:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78E22E06C0 for ; Fri, 17 Aug 2012 05:33:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from muon (ernie02-dmz.awa.tohoku.ac.jp [130.34.99.37]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: heroxbd) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 58E5F1B400E for ; Fri, 17 Aug 2012 05:33:34 +0000 (UTC) From: heroxbd@gentoo.org To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] OpenRC and SystemD Config File Parity References: Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 14:33:30 +0900 In-Reply-To: (Jason A. Donenfeld's message of "Fri, 17 Aug 2012 03:23:52 +0200") Message-ID: <86628iccb9.fsf@gentoo.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.4 (gnu/linux) 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Archives-Salt: af8e8057-8c11-4afc-b797-a96df62cc8ab X-Archives-Hash: 6df4bdac9664f426fda60318e8495ea7 "Jason A. Donenfeld" writes: > To what degree is there parity of configuration formats between OpenRC > and SystemD? Obviously there will never be any sort of parity ever for > Unit files, but what about for the general parameters of the system? > machine-id, locale, timezone, hostname, et cetera. In OpenRC they are mostly in /etc/conf.d. How about systemd? > I suppose when I refer to OpenRC, I'm really talking about Baselayout. > > I guess more specifically what I'm wondering is: > > - What is the current state of differences between config file formats > and locations used for OpenRC/Baselayout and SystemD? config file formats differs a lot, for OpenRC it's shell script, while for SystemD Microsoft ini/XDG Desktop Entry Specification. > - Is parity desirable? Are some people working on this? Thought of that before, but haven't gain much motivation yet. > - Are there advantages / disadvantages? Which files, for what, and > why? I'm not sure. > Anyway, if folks have opinions or thoughts, I'd love to hear them. But > this is just loose inquiry, not a pressing question for a project in > motion, so don't feel compelled to exsanguinate your soul here. Oh I'm scared ;)