On 12/11/2017 13:47, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 12 Nov 2017 10:55:04 +0000, Akater wrote: > >> It looks like systemd scripts often (always?) get installed, regardless >> of USE flag settings. > > Because they are tiny so impact of them is negligible. On the other hand, > if you don't have them and want to switch to systemd, you would end up > having to recompile half of world just to get the service files. > >> Why would they? Is this a policy? > > AFAIK, yes. > > If you really want to do this, you can do it with INSTALL_MASK in > make.conf.
but you have to ask yourself, why bother even with that? Yes, I know there are some Lennart haters around who refuse under any circumstances to ever have anything on a computer that might in any way be tainted by Lennart, no matter how tangentially. But that's just daft. No-one complains about /usr/share/doc and the large number of docs there, many of which are larger than all the systemd unit files combined. Or what multilib setups end up doing in /lib It makes engineering sense to install all the various init system's unit and scripts for all packages, then the sysadmin gets to pick which one is in use. -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
