On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 12:14 PM, Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 11:18 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés <can...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> Be aware that /etc/init.d/functions.sh is still required by a lot of >> things (gcc-config, python-updater, perl-cleaner, stuff like >> that).They are trying to move that file to a more reasonable location; >> I expect it to be done in five or six years. > > FYI - patches are welcome on that. I suspect that at some time we'll > start pushing them through if maintainers drag their feet. This > should be a pretty easy/safe change, but obviously we want to be > careful since it seems to be fairly important packages that abuse this > file.
There is a tracker bug for the packages still sourcing /etc/init.d/functions.sh, instead of /lib/gentoo/functions.sh: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=504116 My comment was tongue-in-cheek, although the change has taken years already. > Once this is done users should be able to remove openrc safely if they > aren't using it. At that point we might take up whether it makes > sense to just make the init system like the > bootloader/syslog/cron/kernel/etc in the handbook and have the user > choose which one they want. Looking forward to that. Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Profesor de asignatura, Facultad de Ciencias Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
