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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-dev] systemd profiles
From:       Rich Freeman <rich0 () gentoo ! org>
Date:       2014-08-30 13:45:23
Message-ID: CAGfcS_npKD2JfKmgj3jJ-ipiA9nOT13YaGMW8N6ze75H1bvhXQ () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 8:55 AM, Lars Wendler <polynomial-c@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Aug 2014 08:03:10 -0400 Rich Freeman wrote:
>
>>On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 7:41 AM, Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org>
>>wrote:
>>> Dnia 2014-08-30, o godz. 13:27:08
>>> "J. Roeleveld" <joost@antarean.org> napisał(a):
>>>>
>>>> Not sure if this idea has been discussed before, but:
>>>> Wouldn't it be an idea to have a "virtual/init" which depends on 1
>>>> of:
>>>
>>> You mean our virtual/service-manager?
>>>
>>
>>Michał is already well-aware of this one, but for general interest,
>>the main blocker to actually doing this is:
>>https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=504116
>
> Which is really a shame that there's such slow progress. I already added
> several patches to the blocking bugs but none was fixed meanwhile...

A possible solution is to remove it in the next version of openrc, as
it is deprecated already.  Another solution is to ask the Council to
let somebody apply patches if the maintainer is unresponsive, set a
deadline, etc.

Since many of the packages are system packages letting them break
isn't really an option.

--
Rich

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