On 09/08/13 04:05, Zac Medico wrote:
On 08/08/2013 12:11 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote:
On Thu, 8 Aug 2013 21:57:37 +0300
Alon Bar-Lev <alo...@gentoo.org> wrote:
Multiple implementations shouldn't block Gentoo going forward.
We need to come up with a solution similar to the above to avoid
this...
This is called a 'profile'.
You can have systemd and openrc profiles, and then able to mask
specific packages...
That's an interesting solution. Though, I wonder if it constitutes as
use or as misuse of profiles as we haven't thought this out; also, I
wonder how different people's stance is over having profiles like this.
This seems like a possible applicatio for "mix-in" profiles like Funtoo
uses:
http://www.funtoo.org/wiki/Flavors_and_Mix-ins
I've always disliked unnecessary profiles, a lot, but this whole
selecting of init plus packages supporting it plus the /usr-move issue
the systemd maintainers are bundling together with it by forcing the
unstandard systemd installation to /usr...
imho, would be good enough reason for a one or two more sub profiles
What if eg. profiles/targets/desktop would have sub directory
profiles/targets/desktop/systemd which would have a 'parent' of '..'
with USE="-consolekit systemd" and more importantly, the could-be kludge
to setup the /usr-move, the could-be environment variable to disable
functionality of gen_usr_ldscript...
profiles/targets/desktop/gnome with 'parent' of '..' and '../../systemd'
that mask the core packages GNOME 3.x that will pull in systemd
unconditionally, and profiles/targets/desktop/systemd unmasking those
packages
(I hope that was readable, it seems a lot simpler in my head ;-)
- Samuli
