On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 7:30 PM, William Hubbs <willi...@gentoo.org> wrote: > All, > > for bug 373219 [1], we are working on providing a functions.sh that does > not rely on OpenRc so that people who are not using OpenRc can > completely remove it from their systems. > > I can now report that gentoo-functions has been added to the tree. Also, > I have opened a tracker [2] that explains how to change packages that > source /etc/init.d/functions.sh. They should first check for the > existence of /lib/gentoo/functions.sh and source that. If it doesn't > exist, they should source /etc/init.d/functions.sh. Also, do not add > hard dependencies to your packages on gentoo-functions. The goal is to > add gentoo-functions to @system once it is stable.
After reading some posts further in this thread, and discussing on IRC with William, I decided to do the following with app-admin/python-updater-0.12: 1. Changed . /etc/init.d/functions.sh to . /lib/gentoo/functions.sh. This way I don't need to worry about testing against two different implementations. 2. Added a hard dependency on sys-apps/gentoo-functions. Being explicit about dependencies is better than leaving it up to the implicit @systemd dependency. If someone has a really good argument for why I should instead implement this as William originally described above, I am open to changing my approach.
