Hi there!
Every time I switch from mastering service on my work (Ubuntu-powered) to my
own server farm (Gentoo powered) I'm going a bit frustrated: Ubuntu (with all
my hate to many other things in it) has nice user-friendly way of managing
services: you can freely call any of `service <servicename> action` irrelevant
to which init-system is currently in use. Will it be systemd, or (whatever
there is alternative there). `service` wrapper will detect it anyway and will
do the proper things (forward it to either systemd or another service
manager).
I'd like to suggest to remove `service` widget from openrc and make it the
part of (which package? baselayout?)? Here is a pseudocode of how I see it:
```
servicename=${1}
action=${2}
if in_systemd; then
systemctl "${action}" "${servicename}"
else
rc-service "${servicename}" "${action}"
fi
```
Well, actually, there may be some more logic (for example, instance units
(`unit@instance` in `systemd` vs `unit.instance` in openrc), "enable" action
(forward it to `rc-update add` for `openrc`, probably) and maybe some more.
But anyway, the conception is something like that.
What do you think about that?
P.S. actually, it also would be nice to add "generators" thing to it too, to
make it possible to manage services that have no systemd's units under SystemD
and services that have only units under OpenRC (well, that one looks much
harder than first variant, but, again, looks like deb/ubuntu guys did that
work already and we can try to use their work as cheatsheet)
