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On Sun, 01 Jan 2012 02:12:22 -0500 |
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Olivier Crête <tester@g.o> wrote: |
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> The udev/kmod/systemd/dracut effort to standardise the base userspace |
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> of Linux is probably scary for quite a few Gentoo-ers as it means |
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> that the end result of an installed Gentoo system will be less |
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> differentiated than it was before. But it still is a step in the |
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> right direction as most of these standardized pieces are much better |
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> than what we currently have. The OpenRC/baselayout-2 fiasco, not much |
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> better than baselayout-1 and unmaintained upstream shows that even a |
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> relatively large distribution like us can't maintain a competitive |
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> base system solution, adopting the udev/kmod/systemd way will allow |
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> us to use all the work that they are doing and instead concentrate on |
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> making a better system. |
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Doesn't all this mess just show that no-one else can maintain a |
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"competitive" base system solution either? |
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Ciaran McCreesh |
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