can you give examples of some? Not trying to bd sarcastic, i do just want to see what alternatives are doing.
Sure, that seems pretty reasonable. Here’s the init script for sddm:
#!/usr/bin/openrc-run
supervisor=supervise-daemon
command="/usr/bin/sddm"
depend() {
need localmount
after bootmisc consolefont modules netmount
after ypbind autofs openvpn gpm lircmd
after quota keymaps
before alsasound
want logind
use xfs
provide xdm display-manager
}
That’s it. That’s the whole thing.
That’s a pretty simple one though, so here’s Alsa. It’s a more complex one:
code
#!/usr/bin/openrc-run
# Copyright 1999-2019 Gentoo Authors
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
alsastatedir=/var/lib/alsa
alsascrdir=/etc/alsa.d
alsahomedir=/run/alsasound
extra_commands="save restore"
depend() {
need localmount
after bootmisc modules isapnp coldplug hotplug
}
restore() {
ebegin "Restoring Mixer Levels"
checkpath -q -d -m 0700 -o root:root ${alsahomedir} || return 1
if [ ! -r "${alsastatedir}/asound.state" ] ; then
ewarn "No mixer config in ${alsastatedir}/asound.state, you have to unmute your card!"
eend 0
return 0
fi
local cards="$(sed -n -e 's/^ *\([[:digit:]]*\) .*/\1/p' /proc/asound/cards)"
local CARDNUM
for cardnum in ${cards}; do
[ -e /dev/snd/controlC${cardnum} ] || sleep 2
[ -e /dev/snd/controlC${cardnum} ] || sleep 2
[ -e /dev/snd/controlC${cardnum} ] || sleep 2
[ -e /dev/snd/controlC${cardnum} ] || sleep 2
alsactl -E HOME="${alsahomedir}" -I -f "${alsastatedir}/asound.state" restore ${cardnum} \
|| ewarn "Errors while restoring defaults, ignoring"
done
for ossfile in "${alsastatedir}"/oss/card*_pcm* ; do
[ -e "${ossfile}" ] || continue
# We use cat because I'm not sure if cp works properly on /proc
local procfile=${ossfile##${alsastatedir}/oss}
procfile="$(echo "${procfile}" | sed -e 's,_,/,g')"
if [ -e /proc/asound/"${procfile}"/oss ] ; then
cat "${ossfile}" > /proc/asound/"${procfile}"/oss
fi
done
eend 0
}
save() {
ebegin "Storing ALSA Mixer Levels"
checkpath -q -d -m 0700 -o root:root ${alsahomedir} || return 1
mkdir -p "${alsastatedir}"
if ! alsactl -E HOME="${alsahomedir}" -f "${alsastatedir}/asound.state" store; then
eerror "Error saving levels."
eend 1
return 1
fi
for ossfile in /proc/asound/card*/pcm*/oss; do
[ -e "${ossfile}" ] || continue
local device=${ossfile##/proc/asound/} ; device=${device%%/oss}
device="$(echo "${device}" | sed -e 's,/,_,g')"
mkdir -p "${alsastatedir}/oss/"
cp "${ossfile}" "${alsastatedir}/oss/${device}"
done
eend 0
}
start() {
if [ "${RESTORE_ON_START}" = "yes" ]; then
restore
fi
return 0
}
stop() {
if [ "${SAVE_ON_STOP}" = "yes" ]; then
save
fi
return 0
}
That’s definitely longer than a systemd service, but you’d have to write an awful lot of them to be more code than all of systemd. Overall the entire /etc/init.d folder on my PC where all the init scripts even for the stuff I’m not using are stored is a grand total of 147.7 KiB. Not exactly an unmanageable amount of code, in my humble opinion.
Its certainly easier to read than most old init scripts and I can see why some distros and openbsd would pick it over systemd for more control. I’m not likely to pick a distro that uses it anytime soon, but i can see why some do.
That’s totally fair. I’m not some weird evangelist or anything. I just like options and think OpenRC is kinda neat. There’s nothing wrong with systemd, and honestly it’s more work using other options. Not for the actual init system, but for some of the other stuff systemd does. I’ve had to learn cron, and that has been… interesting. It feels like all of the documentation around cron just assumes you already know how cron works. I’m still not sure if I’m doing it right, but I’ve had a good time and my computer works, and really that’s good enough for me.
