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Just a curiosity but has anyone attempted to build and use OpenRC on LFS with any luck?
Sheer inertia has kept me from pursuing anything other than the default SysV init. LFS is my everyday working platform on a desktop. I seldom reboot so the startup process is rather rare for me.
I've looked at the package, and saw the Gentoo init files as examples and most of them are extremely complex in formulation to using OpenRC as a service handler (yes it still requires sysvinit as a backbone), and most of these scripts look similar but not so similar to s6 and Runit scripts, but with much higher detail.
However, I'm not comfortable with this system because the package is geared solely to Gentoo, kFreeBSD, and such that it's hard to decipher where files go outside of Gentoo.
I could easily say it's not worth pursuing, so unless anyone could show a better example of the scripts and the Gentoo core init scripts, this package might not be worth trying.
To be honest, using a bsdinit style might be better and even then you could still do tree based dependency loading with multiple scripts for background startup with minimal notifications.
I do keep my LFS/BLFS userland very bleeding edge and go far beyond the book(s) especially with multimedia apps which I generally build from fresh GIT sources. As for the task of launching the system, as much as I stay current on other things, I stick with the familiar and stable. In short, in that regard I'll never be another Lennart. That said, I do very much like his PulseAudio package so I guess he ain't all bad.
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