Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: should openrc be mandatory on all gentoo systems?
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 06:40:18
Message-Id: BANLkTikF722N_33DegZo9TC7E-HyHW7qEg@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: should openrc be mandatory on all gentoo systems? by "Olivier CrĂȘte"
1 2011/6/28 Olivier CrĂȘte:
2 > As long as we have Gentoo-style init scripts in the tree, we will need
3 > these functions to be available. So yes, they should probably be in a
4 > separate package from openrc itself to ease the transition to the bright
5 > systemd future.
6
7 systemd is limited (acknowledged by its author and encoded in its
8 basic design) in what it supports. the set of systems that openrc
9 supports is significantly larger and simpler (by design). i really
10 cant see it being replaced by systemd.
11 -mike