On Mon, 6 Aug 2012 07:49:48 -0400 Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 6:42 AM, Fabian Groffen <grob...@gentoo.org> > wrote: > > On 06-08-2012 13:37:55 +0300, Samuli Suominen wrote: > >> > Also, I'm not so sure if this will work correctly for Prefix. > >> > >> I'm sure that is easily checked and we will get feedback quickly. > > > > I'm sure systemd/udev will never run in (a) Prefix, so perhaps it is > > more sensical not to pseudo-provide support for it. > > > > I wouldn't be so quick to make that assumption. Right now openrc > doesn't work on Prefix but there is a SoC project to change that. Why > wouldn't we assume that somebody will do the same for systemd? > Obviously the long-term future of systemd/openrc/alternatives is > unclear now, but that just seems to be all the more reason to keep our > options open. > > I'm not suggesting that we fully build-in support for systemd under > Prefix and so on, but rather I'm suggesting that if leaving it open as > an option now saves us a lot of rework later we should consider it. > > (And yes, I realize that systemd is currently linux-only and why that > would make any use under Prefix difficult.) There are Linux prefixes too, aren't there? I see one use for Prefix systemd unit files currently: when host runs systemd, and user uses (symlinks) the Gentoo Prefix init files to start prefixed services on the host. -- Best regards, Michał Górny
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