On 2024.11.05 20:44, Eduardo Santos wrote:
I searched for sinit on the gentoo-user archives and couldn't find
anything, there's only a few Reddit threads which don't help much.
Would it
be possible to follow the steps here[1] to use sinit +
daemontools-encore
on Gentoo, or are there hard dependencies on OpenRC that make this
impossible?
This is completely for fun. I'm aware of discussions of this init vs.
that
init and I don't hate systemd/OpenRC or anything like that. Again,
this is
just for fun.
I'm willing to do a lot of work myself to make this work, but if
Portage or
some other core Gentoo subsystem doesn't play well with sinit or
daemontools-encore it'd be just a waste of time.
[1] https://troubleshooters.com/linux/diy/suckless_init_on_plop.html
If Gentoo had a hard dep on ANY init system, it is likely the other
init systems would have problems running under Gentoo. (Also, remember
that just because something is installed doesn't necessarily mean it
has to run.) While I don't think anyone can guarantee you won't run
into any problems, I can't think of any reason what you want to do
shouldn't work. It sounds like a very interesting exercise, although I
might try it in a virtual machine first, as they suggest, even if you
use Gentoo instead of Plop. Let us know how it works.
