On 17/02/2014 14:17, Tanstaafl wrote: > In fact, it seems to me that, since (from what I've read) the primary > reason that systemd was written in the first place was to provide > extremely fast boots *in virtualized environments*, having it be a > choice made by selecting a corresponding *profile* is the *ideal* > solution - at least for gentoo. At least this way everything could be > documented, and switching between a systemd and non-systemd profile can > be supported for as long as possible, understanding that at some point > in time it may have to become an install time choice - kind of like > choosing between hardened or not is mostly an install time choice now.
To me, this is as close to ideal as it can get. As I said in my opening post, I do not suffer from the problem RedHat is solving - my machines seldom reboot quicker than every 10 days (including laptops) and OpenRC gets me to a useable prompt faster than the BIOS takes to do it's thing :-) A profile-like solution would suit me perfectly, something I can use or not as I see fit and the choice made at install time. -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
