On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 8:13 PM, Mike Gilbert <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> If you manually write your own configuration for GRUB2, it is no more
> convoluted than for GRUB Legacy.
>
> If you use grub-mkconfig to generate a configuration file, you can
> append the init option by setting
> GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="init=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd" in
> /etc/default/grub.
Not all the Gentoo users are as skilled as you (a developer). Having a
programmatic, bootloader agnostic way to swap /sbin/init is useful for
the reasons I explained. Yet I haven't read any solid reason not to do
that.
>
> Either way, it's pretty simple.
>
If it's that simple, why on earth do we have all the eselect modules we have!?
Extra modules:
audicle Manage /usr/bin/audicle audio engine
bashcomp Manage contributed bash-completion scripts
binutils Manage installed versions of sys-devel/binutils
blas Manage installed BLAS implementations
bzimage Switch bzImage default kernel by updating
/boot/bzImage symlink
cblas Manage installed CBLAS implementations
cdparanoia Manage /usr/bin/cdparanoia implementation
chuck Manage /usr/bin/chuck audio engine
ctags Manage /usr/bin/ctags implementations
ecj Manage ECJ targets
editor Manage the EDITOR environment variable
emacs Manage /usr/bin/emacs version
env Manage environment variables set in /etc/env.d/
esd Select esound daemon or wrapper
etags Manage /usr/bin/etags implementations
fontconfig Manage fontconfig /etc/fonts/conf.d/ symlinks
gnat Manage the installed gnat compilers
gnome-shell-extensions Manage default settings for systemwide
GNOME Shell extensions
infinality Manage the /etc/fonts/infinality/conf.d symlink
java-nsplugin Manage the Java plugin for Netscape-like Browsers
java-vm Manage the Java system and user VM
kernel Manage the /usr/src/linux symlink
lapack Manage installed LAPACK implementations
lcdfilter Manage the /etc/env.d/99lcdfilter symlink
lightdm Switch between LightDM greeters
locale Manage the LANG environment variable
maven Manage Maven targets
mesa Manage the OpenGL driver architecture used
by media-libs/mesa
miniaudicle Manage /usr/bin/miniAudicle audio engine
modules Query eselect modules
mpg123 Manage /usr/bin/mpg123 implementation
mpost Manage /usr/bin/mpost implementations
news Read Gentoo ("GLEP 42") news items
notify-send Manage /usr/bin/notify-send implementation
nxserver Manages the configuration of NX servers
oodict Manage the configuration of dictionaries
for OpenOffice.Org.
opencl Manage the OpenCL implementation used by your system
opengl Manage the OpenGL implementation used by your system
package-manager Manage the PACKAGE_MANAGER environment variable
pager Manage the PAGER environment variable
pdftex Manage /usr/bin/pdftex implementations
php Manage php installations
pinentry Manage /usr/bin/pinentry implementation
postgresql Manage active PostgreSQL client
applications and libraries
profile Manage the make.profile symlink
python Manage Python symlinks
qtgraphicssystem Manage the system-wide active Qt Graphics System
rails Manage Ruby on Rails versions
rc Manage /etc/init.d scripts in runlevels
ruby Manage Ruby symlinks
settingsd Switch between settingsd implementations
sh Manage /bin/sh (POSIX shell) implementations
sndpeek Manage /usr/bin/sndpeek audio engine
sysvinit Switch between sysvinit implementations
timidity Select default system patchset for TiMidity++
unison Manage /usr/bin/unison versions
vdr-plugin Manage VDR plugins
vi Manage /usr/bin/vi implementations
visual Manage the VISUAL environment variable
wxwidgets Manage the system default wxWidgets profile.
xvmc Manage the XvMC implementation used by your system
Why aren't we telling people to just edit config files!?
--
Fabio Erculiani
