[gentoo-user] Re: Problem with openrc-0.18.4 and ifplugd

[Kai Krakow <hurikhan77@gmail.com>]

Am Mon, 21 Dec 2015 16:59:39 -0600
schrieb »Q« <boxcars@gmx.net>:

> On Mon, 21 Dec 2015 21:40:30 +0000
> Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 21 Dec 2015 16:25:34 -0500, waltdnes@waltdnes.org wrote:
> > 
> > > > From what I read/understand openrc is in the process of removal
> > > > from @system, for all profiles?    
> > > 
> > >   In Lennart's dreams... and many peoples' nightmares.  
> > 
> > It's got nothing to do with Lennart. There is a choice of init
> > managers, openrc or systemd - so portage should, and apparently
> > will, handle this with a virtual. Currently, openrc is forced on
> > those using systemd, even though they have no use for it - that is
> > just as wrong as forcing systemd on openrc users.
> 
> AFAICT, the day is pretty close.
> 
> <https://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/profiles/base/packages>
> and <https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=511500> indicate openrc
> is still in @system as a stopgap, to keep providing functions.sh
> because of bugs 373219 (FIXED already) and
> <https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=504116>, which only has 4
> ebuilds left to fix.

Fixed here by install masking /etc/init.d and symlinking functions.sh
to the new location. ;-)

Disclaimer: Do not apply on openrc systems.

-- 
Regards,
Kai

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