On 19/08/2013 19:03, Yohan Pereira wrote: > On 19/08/13 at 09:36pm, William Kenworthy wrote: >> So why not a profile so those guys who want to play can get a >> configuration that better suits them? - and vice versa if the whole >> systemd push dies and Redhat drops it as I doubt anyone else big enough >> will pick it up (they have a foot in both camps at the moment). Smaller >> distros that jump entirely systemd will be in trouble until they move back. > > Not a systemd supporter in any way but I don't think making a profile > makes sense because we already have profiles for kde, gnome, desktop > etc. Users will probably want to use systemd in-conjunction with any one > of those, so we would need to have kde-systemd, gnome-systemd .. which > is absurd. > > At least I don't see a sane way to achieve it from my > rudimentary understanding of profiles.
The only way it could be done is to have additive profiles, i.e. a collection of possible profiles such as gnome, kde, openrc, systemd - pick all that apply. This very rapidly cascades into a total nightmare when one profile say to include thing X and another says to exclude thing X. There's no sane default handling for that, one has to install local policy that applies a precedence rule. USE=systemd is far better (ignoring for the moment the difficulties in actually switching the service manager over) -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
