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Alistair Bush posted on Sun, 28 Mar 2010 23:21:23 +1300 as excerpted: |
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>> So you mention openrc, but don't have it on the list? |
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> Yes because openrc isn't really gentoo-specific. I don't want the list |
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> blowing out to include ever package in the entire tree. ie. Thanking |
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> gcc for contributing to gentoo. |
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> Note this doesn't mean that openrc won't be on the list. I think that |
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> in this case the dev has worked closely enough with gentoo to deserve |
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> acknowledgment. (being a former dev might have helped that :) ) |
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> Maybe it will be in a "Non-Gentoo specific" section of the list, or |
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> something. My point at the moment is to distinguish it from something |
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> like pkgcore/paludis which were developed with gentoo firmly as the |
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> target platform. |
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I don't disagree with your idea, and I'm not /really/ the partisan openrc |
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booster this might cause me to appear to be, it's just that it and the |
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portage helpers are more than likely pretty much it, and I /am/ trying to |
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understand the distinction being made: |
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What other distributions (*BSD, Linux, or...) do you know that use |
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openrc? IOW, I know it was designed to be distribution independent, but I |
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don't know of anyone else using it (well, other than Gentoo derivatives), |
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and Gentoo certainly influenced it. |
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Meanwhile, portage, and thus the various app-portage/* tools, as |
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mentioned, should be usable on many of those same Gentoo derivatives. |
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And paludis and friends, while being designed for more independent use |
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(much like openrc), again, is it (are they) actually part of any non- |
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Gentoo-based distribution? |
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The point being, perhaps I'm wrong and openrc does have a broader |
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distribution basis than I'm aware of, but in practice, it seems all of |
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these tend to be used /almost/ exclusively with Gentoo and Gentoo based |
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distributions. If openrc's usage is rather wider than I'm aware of, well |
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then, I'm about to learn that. =:^) |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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