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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: Thilo Bangert <bangert@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: The future of sys-apps/openrc in Gentoo
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 16:16:31
Message-Id: 201008241219.12983.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: The future of sys-apps/openrc in Gentoo by Thilo Bangert
1 On Tuesday, August 24, 2010 08:57:45 Thilo Bangert wrote:
2 > > , efficient, known-good solution
3 > > that does what you'd expect it to do and replace it with a new thingy
4 > > that doesn't provide all the features, is harder to debug etc. etc.? I
5 > > just don't see any *advantage* from it apart from saying "OMG HAZ NEW
6 > > FEATRUES" :)
7 >
8 > one feature of systemd is, that it has an active upstream.
9
10 ... and so does openrc
11
12 > no, i dont think it would be a good idea to switch to systemd, just yet.
13 > but like the original baselayout was breaking new ground back when it
14 > first was developed, so is systemd. it does things differently and may not
15 > have all features yet, but from the outset it appears to be vastly
16 > superior to sysv-style inits, upstart and openrc.
17
18 nothing is stopping you or anyone else from making systemd work under Gentoo
19 -mike

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: The future of sys-apps/openrc in Gentoo Thilo Bangert <bangert@g.o>