Bug#946197: Let's switch to OpenRC?

[Benda Xu]

Hi Thomas,

Thomas Goirand <zigo at debian.org> writes:

>> The last time I looked (years ago), there were features in sysvinit
>> which weren't in OpenRC (yet). IIRC not having concurrent execution of
>> boot scripts was one of the missing features and the reason for e.g.
>> our derivative distribution GRML to not switch to OpenRC some years
>> ago.
>
> OpenRC does have parallel execution of scripts, it works well, but when
> activated, the display output is still a bit ugly. I'm not sure why (I
> haven't investigated). If the issue is just the screen output, then
> probably it can be worked on.

The ugly output is caused by
/lib/lsb/init-functions.d/20-left-info-blocks from lsb-base.

Thomas Goirand <zigo at debian.org> writes:

> Benda Xu <heroxbd at gentoo.org> wrote:
>> I think it would be time when OpenRC has a systemd .ini parser, to
>> also make use of systemd units.
>
> Do you think this could be written?

I think so.  It's on my agenda.  Anyone is welcomed is she wants to
join.

Yours,
Benda