After chatting with Rich a bit, I'm going to reply here. On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 08:17:17PM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 8:03 PM William Hubbs <willi...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > > > On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 07:30:57PM -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > > > On 7/10/19 7:16 PM, William Hubbs wrote: > > > > 3. add a sysvinit use flag to openrc, which will be off by default. When > > > > it is on, openrc will block sysvinit since it will provide /sbin/init > > > > and /sbin/shutdown. > > > > > > > > > > This logic, or maybe the name of the flag, sounds backwards to me. I > > > only get sysvinit when USE=sysvinit is NOT set? > > > > If you don't set sys-apps/openrc[sysvinit], you would have /sbin/init > > and /sbin/shutdown as they are now, from sys-apps/sysvinit. > > > > Systemd already has IUSE=+sysv-utils which has a similar function: > [- ] sysv-utils > sys-apps/systemd: Install sysvinit compatibility symlinks and > manpages for init, telinit, halt, poweroff, reboot, runlevel, and > shutdown
Actually, I like the name sysv-utils for this use flag; that seems to describe better what it does. > RDEPEND="sysv-utils? ( !sys-apps/sysvinit ) > !sysv-utils? ( sys-apps/sysvinit )" I like this, but the second branch (!sysv-utils) is not really needed, because if we put sysvinit as the first RDEPEND of virtual/init, we don't need to worry about installing it through rdepend in openrc. We can also add sys-apps/openrc as an rdepend of sys-apps/sysvinit possibly. I'll take a look at that. > sysv-utils seems like a generic enough flag and I'd suggest that it > would be appropriate to use for openrc as well if it can install its > own implementation of these tools. This is where I want to go. I don't want to install the openrc implementations by default, because I want to make it easy to dual-boot a system, like what systemd does by default if you don't have the sysv-utils use flag turned on. > > (For those who aren't aware, systemd is compatible with the sysvinit > versions of these tools, so you can run systemd with sysvinit > installed.) > > -- > Rich >
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