Bug 591388

Summary:	openrc depending on "sysvinit \|\| runit" can make the system unbootable
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Vincent de Phily <moltonel>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	OpenRC Team <openrc>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	josef64
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Vincent de Phily 2016-08-16 11:03:51 UTC

Currently openrc depends on ( || ( >=sys-apps/sysvinit-2.86-r6 sys-process/runit ) ), which means that sysvinit will be uninstalled if runit is installed and in the world file.

This would be fine if runit provided the same functionalities as sysvinit, but by default it doesn't: most notably it doesn't install a /sbin/init. Contrary to sysvinit, runit can also be used standalone (not as the init process). That seems to be the usecase provided by the current ebuild.

Openrc shouldn't depend on runit until the ebuild can install runit as the main init system. Maybe the runit ebuild should have a USE flag to govern that behavior, and openrc can then depend on runit installed with that useflag.

Bug 575478 might be linked to this one, I'm not sure.

Comment 1 William Hubbs gentoo-dev

2016-09-22 17:09:41 UTC

OpenRC should not have a dependency on runit; the reverse might be true
 and should be taken care of in the bug you cited above.

The live ebuild has been updated to not depend on runit in commit
51c8592.

This will be affective with the 0.22 release.