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On 2014-11-25, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On 25/11/2014 18:35, Grant Edwards wrote: |
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>> On 2014-11-23, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>>> There is only the one that portage will happen to install should you not |
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>>> specify a preference. |
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>> If "default" doesn't mean "what will happen should you not specify a |
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>> preference", then what _does_ "default" mean? |
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> Please go back and read the whole thread and stop quibbling about |
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> semantics. |
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I read the whole thread, and I still didn't understand your statement |
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that there is no default init system. |
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> The OP made statements that read as if he felt entitled to support, |
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> bugfixes etc from the gentoo dev community by simple virtue of a |
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> particular package being considered a default. I pointed out he was |
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> expecting far in excess of what was promised. |
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That's fine, and I agree 100% |
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But that's got nothing to do with whether Openrc is the default init |
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system or not? It _is_ the default init system. Whether that means |
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all packages are required to support it or not is a different question |
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(about which the OP seemed to be mistaken). If what you meant was |
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that packages are not required to support the default init system, |
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then, I don't understand how that is spelled "there is no default init |
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system". |
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I honestly didn't understand why you said there was no default init |
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system, when there clearly is. I _did_ understand that not all |
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packages are required to support the default init system (which is |
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Openrc). That didn't appear to be what you were claiming. Were it |
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true that there was no default init system, then you would have _no_ |
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init system unless you explicitly installed one yourself (which is the |
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case for countless other things like a system logger, bootloader, |
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windowing system, desktop, photo editor, etc.). For those things |
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there is no default. There is a default init system. |
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Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! GOOD-NIGHT, everybody |
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at ... Now I have to go |
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gmail.com administer FIRST-AID to my |
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pet LEISURE SUIT!! |