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From: Richard Freeman <rich0@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: List of User projects
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2010 14:40:47
Message-Id: 4BAF6A62.5060300@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: List of User projects by Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>
1 On 03/28/2010 10:27 AM, Duncan wrote:
2 > The point being, perhaps I'm wrong and openrc does have a broader
3 > distribution basis than I'm aware of, but in practice, it seems all of
4 > these tend to be used /almost/ exclusively with Gentoo and Gentoo based
5 > distributions. If openrc's usage is rather wider than I'm aware of, well
6 > then, I'm about to learn that. =:^)
7 >
8
9 Well, I'm sure there is an openrc list somewhere that might be a better
10 forum for these kinds of discussions, but I suspect that they need to
11 walk before they run. Right now openrc isn't even the stable init
12 system for Gentoo.
13
14 I know that their goal was to be completely distro-neutral, and once it
15 stabilizes we might see it happen. It certainly would be very useful -
16 it would standardize a ton of stuff across distros.
17
18 Rich