On 06/03/2013 02:37 AM, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Mon, Jun 03, 2013 at 12:35:29AM +0200, Luca Barbato wrote > >> - eselect init will be opt-in ***FOR THE TIME BEING***, people can >> be left on their own tools if the want it > > This statement should bring the same reaction as the posting that udev > source was being rolled into the systemd tarball. It implies that > eselect init will eventually become mandatory.
Let me restate: As long there isn't a strict necessity the whole machinery should not impact the normal systems with the default init. > Your situation is a special use-case, i.e. a developer who wants to > switch between a "production" init system, and a "test" init system, > possibly multiple times a day. You're a developer, you know which files > to change, put together your own scripts, and run them as necessary. > Set up your own overlay and write your own eselect init ebuild. No > problem. But why should this eventually be a part of mainstream Gentoo? e4rat, bootchart and other addons might be more mainstream than gdb-as-init indeed. > BTW, I'm a bigger fan of busybox than most Gentoo users. Remember the > announcement of systemd/udev tarball integration, and supposed > deprecation of a separate /usr? I was the ****-disturber who started up > the https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Mdev wiki page on how to replace udev > with mdev. I also did a page on automounting at... > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Mdev/Automount_USB/automount Having said > that, I don't see how busybox development justifies an additional layer > of complexity for everybody's bootup. It isn't every bootup =) lu
