Austin English wrote: > (Note: serious discussion, please take systemd trolling elsewhere). > > While having the pleasure of working with some proprietary software > recently, I was asked to run `service foo restart`, and was surprised to > see: > foobar ~ # service foo restart > * service: service `foo' does not exist > > Since `systemctl restart foo` works, I had a workaround anyway. > > Talking with Whubbs about it, I found that our service script only > supports OpenRC, via rc-service. I looked around, and from what I can > tell, most distros ship a service tool for all supported init systems. I.e., > Debian/Ubuntu: supports sysvinit and systemd via init-system-helpers > CentOS/Fedora: provides support for systemd via initscripts > OpenSUSE: has a working service binary for systemd (according to #suse) > > I'd like to propose moving `service` out of OpenRC and into a separate > package that OpenRC and systemd can both use. It's very possible that we > could simply package/use another distro's scripts (I haven't evaluated > that though). >
I thought this was familiar. This was discussed not long ago and as far as I can tell, nothing came of it. https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/9bd54475fc23b9c265984c5a91129710 Hope that link works, if not, this is the subject of the discussion. "[openrc] [systemd] make `service` common for both OpenRC and SystemD (like Debian/Ubuntu/whatever did)" It has a few replies. Dale :-) :-) * *
