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Jeroen Roovers posted on Wed, 13 Apr 2011 18:43:27 +0200 as excerpted: |
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> 1) It's a couple of years old now. :) |
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> 2) Having used it all that time on some systems, I don't see that many |
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> superficial changes, or for that matter, deviations from the old init |
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> system. I would rather think baselayout-2/openrc simply extends and |
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> improves on baselayout-1. |
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Having used and watched the new version evolve, I agree, to a point. Yes |
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it's an extension of the old. But like that old tale of the frog in the |
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boiling water, I think more has changed than we may realize at first. |
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Or another way to put it: If it's so close to the old version, there |
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should be little protest in going back. But I know at least personally, |
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I've *NO* interest in doing that! |
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For one thing, /real/ parallel boot makes quite a difference! For |
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another, I remember baselayout-1's lack of real dependency based ordering |
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in early-boot, with the arbitrary ordered list of early-start services as |
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a substitute since it couldn't manage dependencies at that level. |
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But that said, it's a definite extension of the ideas found in |
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baselayout-1, indeed. Stable Gentooers should find much they already know |
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in the new system. It's certainly not the change that switching to |
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systemd, for example, would be. |
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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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