student wrote:
> On my present setup,
>
> .$ USE_FLAGS=~x86 emerge -p -u baselayout
>
> says
>
> These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
>
> Calculating dependencies ...done!
> [ebuild N ] sys-apps/sysvinit-2.86
> [ebuild U ] app-shells/bash-3.0-r9 [2.05b-r9]
> [ebuild U ] sys-libs/readline-5.0-r2 [4.3-r5]
> [ebuild U ] sys-apps/baselayout-1.11.10-r6 [1.9.4-r6]
>
>
> Why sysvinit?
>
> I thought Gentoo did away with sysvinit-style /etc/rc.d bootup and
> shutdown.
>
> Or has sysvinit been a Gentoo option all along but just wasn't aware of it?
>

Gentoo still has init scripts, those are located in /etc/init.d and you have
the runlevels in /etc/runlevels, without sysvinit you would just have the
kernel loaded and nothign else.


//Aho