sys-apps/openrc is default init system in gentoo. However, the current state of the upstart or sys-apps/systemd is no worse. But now: > grep openrc /user/portage/sys-apps/baselayout/baselayout-2.2.ebuild PDEPEND="sys-apps/openrc" This means sys-apps/openrc will not go away from the system when i install sys-apps/systemd. The proposal is to replace all of the dependencies of sys-apps/openrc in all ebuild`s from current stage3 to some new virtual/any_of_all_init (like current virtual/udev but for init systems) EAPI=5 DESCRIPTION="Virtual to select between sys-apps/openrc and sys-apps/systemd" HOMEPAGE="" SRC_URI="" LICENSE="" SLOT="0" KEYWORDS="" IUSE="" DEPEND="" RDEPEND="|| ( sys-apps/openrc sys-apps/systemd upstart )" The benefits: it will also use the default sys-apps/openrc however, users of alternative init system(like sys-apps/systemd for example) will be able to completely remove sys-apps/openrc. Much work has been done in gentoo-systemd-only overlay https://github.com/canek-pelaez/gentoo-systemd-only It would be just great to be able to use only one of any of the available init systems. Thx.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 409385 ***
