Yeah, so? If it's a monstrous undertaking just to get the system to first boot, how does that help anyone? :) I think that cave is just as useful without init

Yeah, so? If it's a monstrous undertaking just to get the system to first boot, how does that help anyone? :) I think that cave is just as useful without init, and I think that most people who want to package something in paludis are not going to be having boot dependencies (on average I would guess at least 50% of apps are not services. I don't have any hard statistics and that number could be high or low.)