On Wed, 29 May 2013 22:52:58 -0400
Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote:
In order for a different init system to come up, some file(s)
somewhere *MUST* be different, no ifs/ands/ors/buts.
How true is this in general? It is usually only a change of the init
parameter.
Where is
On 05/29/2013 10:55 PM, William Hubbs wrote:
On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 09:56:00PM +0200, Tom Wijsman wrote:
There are a couple of other possible approaches...
1) If the 2 systems can achieve peacefull co-existance (i.e. no
identically-named files with different contents) then simply have 2
On Wed, 29 May 2013 22:52:58 -0400
Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote:
If users can already do it themselves, then why this entire thread?
Why do we need eselect/whatever?
The big argument in favour of eselect is that when the procedure for
switching things changes, there's no need to
Tom Wijsman wrote:
For the same reason we have all the other eselect modules.
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/eselect/
Ironically, that project description even mentions init system... :)
As someone else pointed out, not the same thing. Quoting:
William Hubbs wrote:
Yes, but the init system
On Wed, 29 May 2013 19:22:32 -0500
William Hubbs willi...@gentoo.org wrote:
For the same reason we have all the other eselect modules.
We could probably also turn gcc-config into an eselect module if we
want to use that argument.
Looking at Duncan's reply, that has already happened in the
On Wed, 29 May 2013 19:22:32 -0500
William Hubbs willi...@gentoo.org wrote:
We could probably also turn gcc-config into an eselect module if we
want to use that argument.
Someone did, but unfortunately gcc-config is a big pile of poorly
understood voodoo, so eclectic gcc ended up being
Hello,
I've did a quick statistic of how often USE_EXPAND flags are used.
In order to obtain the results, I have put all known USE_EXPANDs into
${flags[@]} and then did:
for a in ${flags[@]}; do
echo -n $a:
grep -l IUSE=.*${a}_ */* | xargs qatom | cut -d' ' -f1-2 | sort -u
| wc -l
On 30/05/13 11:58, Michał Górny wrote:
Hello,
Only replying in behalf of xfce_plugins. Our policy has been always to +
enable them by default as they are only used in Xfce specific packages
So setting XFCE_PLUGINS= is a way to counter effect that policy
This has worked well for us and I
On Tue, 28 May 2013 17:15:40 -0500
William Hubbs willi...@gentoo.org wrote:
On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 09:07:37PM +0200, Michał Górny wrote:
For the others, how large is the benefit of having them switchable?
At least some of them look like something that wouldn't hurt people
if it was
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On 30/05/13 02:46 AM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
On Wed, 29 May 2013 19:22:32 -0500 William Hubbs
willi...@gentoo.org wrote:
We could probably also turn gcc-config into an eselect module if
we want to use that argument.
Someone did, but
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On 05/30/2013 06:26 AM, Samuli Suominen wrote:
On 30/05/13 11:58, Michał Górny wrote:
Hello,
Only replying in behalf of xfce_plugins. Our policy has been always to +
enable them by default as they are only used in Xfce specific packages
So
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 08:35:22AM +0200, Tom Wijsman wrote:
Remember that eselect init is optional and an opt-in by emerging it,
this is in no way suggested anywhere to become a default on all systems.
Ok, that's cool then, I just would hate to see it become a default.
William
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 08:30:00AM +0200, Luca Barbato wrote:
Because it isn't just editing a file or rebuilding the kernel but also
have a short trip in single mode to switch back and forth inittab.
inittab is only used by sysvinit and busybox init right?
If so, it is unfortunate that busybox
On 04/24/2013 12:48 PM, René Neumann wrote:
Am 24.04.2013 19:15, schrieb Zac Medico:
On 04/24/2013 02:51 AM, René Neumann wrote:
As more and more packages seem to (mis)use USE_EXPAND: Can we get the
possibility to set this directly in package.use? Having to write
'claws_mail_plugins_foo' does
On 05/30/2013 10:52 PM, William Hubbs wrote:
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 08:30:00AM +0200, Luca Barbato wrote:
Because it isn't just editing a file or rebuilding the kernel but also
have a short trip in single mode to switch back and forth inittab.
inittab is only used by sysvinit and busybox
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