On Wednesday, June 29, 2011 22:19:09 Michał Górny wrote: > On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 16:46:13 -0500 William Hubbs wrote: > > Ok, the option that I'm looking at now is to set up openrc so that the > > init scripts are optional and whether or not they are installed is > > controlled by a use flag which I will default to on in IUSE. Most > > people would leave this flag alone, but if you want to use something > > like systemd and do not want the init scripts or the /etc/runlevels > > directory on your system, you would just re-emerge > > openrc with this flag disabled. > > > > For now this flag will just control init scripts installation, but I > > will also look into taking it further and not installing other parts > > of openrc, such as binaries, man pages, etc which are only used if > > you are working on init scripts. > > Wouldn't it be better to just leave these people with INSTALL_MASK? > USEflag means needless rebuilds just for the benefit of one file.
so you're saying the solution for systemd users is to setup INSTALL_MASK and we shouldnt worry about tweaking openrc at all ? -mike
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