On Mon, 2012-08-06 at 20:28 +0200, Fabian Groffen wrote: > On 06-08-2012 11:16:52 -0700, Olivier Crête wrote: > > On Mon, 2012-08-06 at 13:56 +0200, Fabian Groffen wrote: > > > While OpenRC is likely perfectly capable of starting/stopping daemons as > > > a normal user (with some tweaks), I expect systemd replacing init, to > > > already have a fair bit of isssues with being just a normal unprivileged > > > user. I may be wrong, of course. However, the notorious reputation of > > > that piece of software aiming for system-domination doesn't really make > > > it sound to me like it ever will be a good match for Prefix. > > > > You happen to be wrong. systemd runs perfectly as non-pid-1. Part of > > Lennart's well published plan for world domination is to use systemd as > > a session manager, so it would replace gnome-session, etc. Lennart & > > friends are currently pushing kernel patches to make it fully recursive > > (such as being able to re-parent orphaned processes to the session's > > systemd instead of the global one. > > Good to know that I'm wrong. I didn't know they pursued world > domination too. I wonder how "kernel patches" go well together with > "being in an environment unknown to you, or that you cannot control at > all", though. Seems there is interest for it to support Prefix then. > Looking forward to patches and solutions to complement the challenges of > this year's GSoC task.
I think they only want to support systemd-in-systemd, not systemd-in-random-init-system. -- Olivier Crête [email protected] Gentoo Developer
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