On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 04:15:03PM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 3:43 PM, William Hubbs <willi...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > I am sending this out for review so we can commit it to the tree > > when we commit our alternate systemd ebuild in a few days. This will be > > set up so that users can choose which systemd package they want to > > install, and it will default to the current systemd package. > > Did I miss some kind of announcement for what is going on here? An > additional implementation in portage along with an eclass probably is > worth some kind of intro on-list. I don't think you need to seek > approval/etc, but it would be nice to know what your goals/etc are. > Is this just a different installation/configuration approach, or is > this some kind of upstream fork?
It is not an upstream fork, it is a configuration/installation approach that follows upstream's recommendations for install locations. It also allows the user more choices wrt which parts of systemd are built or installed and allows more fine-grained use dependencies for other packages. William
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