On 12/12/2013 05:28 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 3:47 PM, Chris Reffett <creff...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> The idea of running a sed on inittab in an ebuild, no matter what the >> context, terrifies me. Perhaps we can ease this in slowly by renaming rc -> >> openrc and symlinking rc -> openrc and making a release with that change >> concurrent with a news item? Or even just do that in the ebuild rather than >> in the actual sources. I don't think Debian will keel over and die if it >> takes a little extra time for the change to go through, and it beats a ton >> of broken systems. > > ++ > > No reason the symlink couldn't be done in the ebuild either - which > keeps the package itself clean. There could be news to clean up > inittab and such, and then perhaps down the road the compat symlink > could be removed. > > Nice to see interest in Debian (granted, I know there was interest > quite a while back). Having more and better options is just good for > everybody - I'd like to see OpenRC become the best traditional-style > service manager around (though honestly I'd be hard-pressed to think > of any that are quite as good already). > > I think one thing that would be nice to dream about someday would be a > systemd-compatibility init.d script. That would be symlinked to a > service name just like a typical network interface script, and would > look for a unit file and interpret it (perhaps just taking a path from > conf.d). I'd think it wouldn't be hard to do, setting aside the more > active-management features of systemd. >
Well, given that systemd unit files don't express dependencies ... I've thought about it and can't figure out a way to make mixed-mode work sanely, at all. You'd have to either manually order the startup sequence, or annotate the unit files with dependency info. Plus you'd need some machinery like socket-activation proxies or you're throwing away even more (to the point where the unit file is just a way to run an executable) I don't think this can be done in a way that adds value to users.
