On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 10:18 PM, Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> wrote: > On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 10:31:21PM +0530, Arun Raghavan wrote > >> The overhead of the files' presence is trivial, and most users won't >> care. Those who do care have a trivial line to add in make.conf, and >> that is for the small number of people who share your vitriol for the >> systemd project. > > Then howsabout a "units" ebuild that installs all available units > files for systemd users? "The overhead of the files' presence is > trivial, and most systemd users won't care".
Read the rest of the thread and the archives. Both suggestions have been discussed and they're not practical. Your first suggestion was specifically rejected by the council. Your second one was suggested only yesterday in this very same thread. > > The thread title says it all... normal Gentoo users don't use systemd. There is no such thing as a "normal Gentoo user." About the closest you'll come is a hypothetical Gentoo user who doesn't touch /etc/portage. I suspect that the time will be approaching soon that there will be more development/testing targeting systemd than OpenRC on Gentoo. I'm sure the default will remain as-is for a long-time. For how many years was the typical developer running OpenRC while the typical user was running baselayout 1? The goal is to make systemd a first class citizen in Gentoo, nothing more. Developers will not be required to run it, or test on it, just as they aren't required to run or test on OpenRC or FreeBSD (two other first-class citizens in Gentoo). If you don't want unit files installed, just use INSTALL_MASK as endorsed by the Council. Ditto for docs, or init.d files, or whatever. Rich