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On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 17:05 +0200, Gilles Dartiguelongue wrote: |
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> Le lundi 05 juillet 2010 à 08:57 +0000, Duncan a écrit : |
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> [lots of stuff about bashisms and posix] |
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> > So let's stabilize OpenRC and be done with it, and /then/ we can debate |
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> > where we want to go from there. |
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> YES, let's get it stable. |
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> However please consider not re-adding bashisms and/or not make it less |
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> POSIX shell compliant than it already is at light speed. It is a great |
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> thing that openrc tries to achieve and allows more use of openrc than |
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> basic desktop/server gentoo usage (think embedded and other distros). |
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> At least one other distro did this move a while ago (debian) and I don't |
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> think they will go back. Seeing they are also moving to a dependency |
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> based init system, they probably could just run a fork of openrc (for |
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> their init scripts are not exactly compatible with what we do). |
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Other distributions are going one step further and are going for |
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shell-free boot. We should follow that lead. |
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Olivier Crête |
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tester@g.o |
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Gentoo Developer |
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