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On 07/04/10 23:32, Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: |
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> On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 7:53 AM, Richard Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote: |
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>> On 07/04/2010 04:09 PM, Jory A. Pratt wrote: |
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>>> For those of you not on the #gentoo-dev channel, I just announced I am |
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>>> gonna be looking at the openrc code and fixing the bugs and working to |
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>>> continue the development. Anyone that is interested in helping please |
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>>> feel free to contact me off list to discuss how we will handle getting |
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>>> openrc back on track. |
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>> Well, openrc isn't any worse than baselayout-1 for upstream support. |
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>> However, I do agree that we should strongly try to standardize on |
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something |
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>> that is more cross-platform if possible. |
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>> I'd rather not push to make openrc stable (which means lots of |
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migration for |
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>> users), only to then move to something else anyway. Why have two |
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migrations |
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>> when you can just have one? |
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> The reason why people want to do an openrc migration right now is |
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> because we don't know when we'll find something else to move to; make |
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> it work with gentoo, make it work for everyone, iron out all the bugs, |
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> and push it to stable. In all probability, and looking at our past |
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> experience with pushing openrc to stable, it *will* take years. It's |
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> too much work to maintain both baselayout-1 *and* openrc *and* find |
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> something else to move to. It's best to move to openrc (which has |
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> numerous benefits over baselayout-1, and has a maintainer now), and |
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> then see what we can do. |
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That's true, but there's also the fact that openrc has merits which |
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make it an attractive choice --- it is not just that we're stuck with |
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it. We've all used other init systems. I like openrc best. Its |
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excellent for servers and compatible with all the goodies people want |
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on desktops. It is one of the features that attracted me to Gentoo. |
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I'm going to be helping Jory and Patrick with this one. If people |
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feel strongly that we need another init system, it would be |
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interesting to have Gentoo compatible with others (although this |
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sounds like quagmire). However, I wouldn't want to see openrc go. |
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