On Wed, 01 May 2013 12:52:09 -0700
""Paweł Hajdan, Jr."" <phajdan...@gentoo.org> wrote:

> On 5/1/13 3:04 AM, Fabio Erculiani wrote:
> > It is sad to say that the "territoriality" in base-system (and
> > toolchain) is not allowing any kind of progress [3] [4]. This is
> > nothing new, by the way.
> > 
> > [4] "useless crap": https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=399615
> 
> As far as I read the bug, Mike (vapier) is doing the right thing.
> Distros doing lots of custom changes can only add more chaos to the picture.
> 
> Have you reached out to relevant upstreams? If they refuse to make
> changes, that's a different story. So far I think it's reasonable to go
> to upstreams first.

Well, the first thing to do would be making /sbin/init a symlink
and renaming sysvinit. Now, why would sysvinit upstream do such
a thing? I doubt it's a change that upstream should be willing to do
because of what downstream wants to do afterwards...

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny

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