Hi!
I've used for about 2.5 years my own linux distribution based on ideas
from LinuxFromScratch, so I'm not a newbie in this area. At this time
I'm interested in Gentoo because I've no more time to support my own
distribution.
I want to compile and configure Gentoo in the way I use for my distribution,
and I've some question related to this:
1. Why there is so many packages in 'system' list? Why not make 'system'
list much smaller (like in LinuxFromScratch)? Is there exists
documentation which describe reason to include all these packages in
'system' list?
Here is one small example: I don't need and don't like PAM. But 'pam'
and 'pam-login' is in 'system' list, so I can't compile Gentoo without
PAM...
2. My distribution uses a lot of DJB's software like daemontools, qmail,
djbdns... And I've installed in way recommended by DJB, i.e. "svscan"
was executed from /etc/inittab (it's 100% reliable because if it died
by some reason then "/sbin/init" process will restart it, so all my
daemons guarantied to work while "/sbin/init" process exists and they
don't depend on any bash scripts and /var/run/*.pid files).
Is there exists a way in Gentoo to execute "svscan" from
/etc/inittab instead of /etc/init.d/svscan and execute all other
daemons under svscan/supervise control (instead of under /etc/init.d/*
bash scripts plus /var/run/*.pid files control which is less reliable)?
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WBR, Alex.
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