Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: eselect init

[Rich Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org>]

On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 8:37 PM, Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 03, 2013 at 12:35:29AM +0200, Luca Barbato wrote
>
>> - eselect init will be opt-in ***FOR THE TIME BEING***, people can
>> be left on their own tools if the want it
>
>   This statement should bring the same reaction as the posting that udev
> source was being rolled into the systemd tarball.  It implies that
> eselect init will eventually become mandatory.

I don't get why it would ever become mandatory, or why people are
worried about this.  The only packages that tend to touch anything
like inittab are the packages that implement init in the first place.
I'm not aware of any init packages that would require otherwise.  That
being the case, there isn't going to be any tight coupling here.  If
you want a simple config just point your grub/etc to the init
implementation of your choice and it is hard-coded.  Or, install the
fancy switcher script/initramfs/whatever and use it.

People get way to panicky every time somebody posts a new idea on
-dev.  Half of these ideas never get implemented, and 90% of those
which are don't become defaults.  Heck, the intent was always to make
OpenRC the default and it took YEARS for that to happen on stable.

When you see two random developers post a crazy idea on -dev, keep in
mind that we're a distro that fosters innovation by letting any
developer start a project based solely on personal initiative.
Generally things don't become defaults until it becomes fairly obvious
that this is the appropriate course of action.

Rich