On 7/11/19 11:43 AM, William Hubbs wrote: >> >> then by default, OpenRC will pull in sys-apps/sysvinit, and use its >> implementations of init/shutdown. Then later if someone wants to get rid >> of sys-apps/sysvinit, he has the option to uninstall sys-apps/sysvinit >> and then re-emerge OpenRC with USE=sysv-utils. > > Sort of, but not quite. OpenRC doesn't really have an rdepend on > sysvinit at all; it is the other way around. /etc/inittab is part of > sysvinit, not openrc and this is how openrc and sysvinit are used > together. It could be argued that our sysvinit package should have the > rdepend on openrc.
Indeed, the fact that sys-apps/sysvinit installs an inittab that references /sbin/openrc without depending on sys-apps/openrc already looks very wrong to me. Perhaps OpenRC should install its own inittab when USE=sysv-utils is set, and when it blocks installation of sys-apps/sysvinit? In any case, it's obvious that there's a pre-existing mess to be dealt with here and that things aren't as clear-cut as I thought.
