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On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 6:11 AM, Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov <mva@×××.name> wrote: |
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> So, I really hope, that Gentoo will not obey RedHat's will and will not |
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> force SystemD as default init system, and not drop pretty OpenRC to |
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> trash. And I hope, that ryao's eudev will be most used (if not default) |
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> variant of udev, since I'm sad with last vanilla udev functionality |
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> "downgrades". |
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I'm sure all of the options will be offered as options for as long as |
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people care to take care of them. With the number of anti-systemd |
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posts on -dev I don't see openrc going away anytime soon. |
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I'm sure the default will stay as it is unless a substantial majority |
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want it otherwise - we can't go flipping that every time the latest |
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whatever comes along. |
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And frankly, I could care less what it is since I can change it. If I |
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wanted to be rigidly bound by defaults there are a lot of distros |
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easier to maintain than Gentoo. iOS comes to mind. :) |
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I run OpenRC on my main box, and systemd on a VM hosted within it. I |
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wouldn't be surprised if I move to systemd some day as my experience |
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with it has been a good one, but I'll use the tools I think are best |
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for the problem at hand, and not what somebody else chooses for me, |
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and I'll be the last to force a choice on anybody else. That said, |
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Gentoo can only offer the options that devs step up and maintain, so |
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if you care greatly about something start writing patches. |
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That is my biggest concern over a lot of this mess - and Greg KH did a |
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good job putting it into words in the six-month old thread that was |
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just resurrected. Lennart et al only have the power you give to them |
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- anybody can fork at any time or keep an old project going. If you |
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don't like Gnome 3 then start writing code for Gnome 2. This is all |
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FREE software, and it only exists when people take the time to write |
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it. If nobody bothers to maintain the alternatives, then I guess |
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collectively we're going to be stuck with whatever people take the |
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time to write. |
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So, feel free to offer advice/comments/etc. However, let's keep the |
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tone civil. Unless you're their employer, the guys writing the |
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software you don't like owe you precisely nothing. |
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Rich |