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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-dev] eselect init
From:       Ian Stakenvicius <axs () gentoo ! org>
Date:       2013-05-28 12:15:21
Message-ID: 51A49FD9.2030907 () gentoo ! org
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On 28/05/13 12:43 AM, Luca Barbato wrote:
> On 5/28/13 6:19 AM, Michał Górny wrote:
>> And you actually make the boot depend on:
>> 
>> 1) valid /bin/sh
> 
> If it doesn't exist you have a few order of magnitude bigger 
> problem.
> 
>> 2) valid /etc/switch-init which would not interfere with boot 
>> process.
> 
> I guess if you want to switch init system you need that =)
> 
>> With switch-init being executed as a shell script, it can do 
>> anything.
> 
> Yes and that's the beauty of it.
> 
>> And I wouldn't be surprised if you made it do various things 
>> you'd like to be done.
> 
> I would be surprised if I'd make it do various things I won't like 
> to be done, surely a possibility, albeit unlikely.
> 


OK -- so, given how very simple this wrapper is, and likewise how
simple the switcher script would probably be to write, what's the goal
of this whole thread, exactly?  It doesn't sound like this is
something complicated that we'd need to actually provide via an ebuild
or integrating patches in other init-system ebuilds anymore...





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