On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 17:14, Michał Górny wrote: > On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 23:47:42 -0400 Mike Frysinger wrote: >> On Wednesday, June 29, 2011 22:19:09 Michał Górny wrote: >> > On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 16:46:13 -0500 William Hubbs wrote: >> > > Ok, the option that I'm looking at now is to set up openrc so >> > > that the init scripts are optional and whether or not they are >> > > installed is controlled by a use flag which I will default to on >> > > in IUSE. Most people would leave this flag alone, but if you want >> > > to use something like systemd and do not want the init scripts or >> > > the /etc/runlevels directory on your system, you would just >> > > re-emerge openrc with this flag disabled. >> > > >> > > For now this flag will just control init scripts installation, >> > > but I will also look into taking it further and not installing >> > > other parts of openrc, such as binaries, man pages, etc which are >> > > only used if you are working on init scripts. >> > >> > Wouldn't it be better to just leave these people with INSTALL_MASK? >> > USEflag means needless rebuilds just for the benefit of one file. >> >> so you're saying the solution for systemd users is to setup >> INSTALL_MASK and we shouldnt worry about tweaking openrc at all ? > > Have you even heard the word called 'context'? It might be too short > for your taste.
perhaps if you focused less on being snarky and more on the thread content, you'd realize that the context here is "providing /etc/init.d/functions.sh support for non-openrc users". that was the point of William's e-mail that is at the start of this current "context". -mike
