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From: William Hubbs <williamh@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] openrc-0.8.1 stable candidate
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 23:17:25
Message-Id: 20110413231638.GA3483@linux1
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] openrc-0.8.1 stable candidate by Mike Frysinger
1 On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 03:54:24PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
2 > also, we're still sitting on top of classical sysvinit, so i'm not sure openrc
3 > technically qualifies as an "init" system. certainly not a "full" one.
4
5 That's true. Openrc is not really a full init system. It is a set of
6 init scripts, with a large part of its functionality written in c
7 instead of using shell scripts.
8
9 In light of this, I have s/init system/init scripts/ in the news item. I
10 will wait a few days and send it out again after I encorporate any other
11 changes that come from the list.
12
13 William