El mié, 01-05-2013 a las 12:04 +0200, Fabio Erculiani escribió: [...] > - other ~490 systemd units are missing at this time and writing them > could also be a great GSoC project (don't look at me, I'm busy > enough). [...]
Can't them be stolen from other distros running systemd? [...] > The only remaining problem is about eselect-sysvinit, for this reason, > I am probably going to create a new separate pkg called > _sysvinit-next_, that contains all the fun stuff many developers were > not allowed to commit (besides my needs, there is also the need of > splitting sysvinit due to the issues reported in [4]). I am sure that > a masked alternative sysvinit ebuild won't hurt anybody and will make > Gentoo a bit more fun to use. > I am unable to find exact advantage of changing init system without rebooting :/, what is the advantage of booting with an init.d and shutting down with a different one? > The final outcome will hopefully be: > - easier to migrate from/to systemd, at runtime, with NO recompilation > at all (just enable USE=systemd and switch the device manager from > *udev to systemd -- unless somebody wants to drop the udev part from > systemd, if at all possible) Are udev and systemd-udev-part really equivalent? I mean, since they are maintained by different people downstream, I am not sure if there would be differences in how udev from udev ebuild and udev from systemd ebuild will behave. Best regards and thanks for your work!