Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] systemd.eclass: Patch for new function systemd_get_udevdir()

[Rich Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org>]

On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 6:42 AM, Fabian Groffen <grobian@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On 06-08-2012 13:37:55 +0300, Samuli Suominen wrote:
>> > Also, I'm not so sure if this will work correctly for Prefix.
>>
>> I'm sure that is easily checked and we will get feedback quickly.
>
> I'm sure systemd/udev will never run in (a) Prefix, so perhaps it is
> more sensical not to pseudo-provide support for it.
>

I wouldn't be so quick to make that assumption.  Right now openrc
doesn't work on Prefix but there is a SoC project to change that.  Why
wouldn't we assume that somebody will do the same for systemd?
Obviously the long-term future of systemd/openrc/alternatives is
unclear now, but that just seems to be all the more reason to keep our
options open.

I'm not suggesting that we fully build-in support for systemd under
Prefix and so on, but rather I'm suggesting that if leaving it open as
an option now saves us a lot of rework later we should consider it.

(And yes, I realize that systemd is currently linux-only and why that
would make any use under Prefix difficult.)

Rich