On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 10:38 AM, Jason A. Donenfeld <ja...@zx2c4.com> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 4:36 PM, Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> We aren't going to add USE flags which don't do anything. That topic >> was discussed a thousand times, and rising it once more won't change >> our decision. >> >> Similarly, bash-completion flag will be gone at some point. > > Everyone has bash. Not everyone has systemd. >
Then why does OpenRC go out of its way to avoid depending on bash? The answer is that not everybody has bash. In any case, this has been discussed on -dev before. The reason that the unit files were not made a use flag was that they're just simple text files that don't take much space and don't do anything unless you use systemd. Having a USE flag to trigger their install doesn't have much of a point, and it also means that to switch to systemd you'd have to re-emerge anything that installs a unit file. If we went this route we'd end up adding an openrc use flag for anything that sticks files in /etc/init.d, bash-completion, and probably a bunch of other stuff as well. If a package is pulling in dependencies that is a different story, but if we're just talking about a text file I think a USE flag is overkill. Rich
