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From: Richard Yao <ryao@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: "Anthony G. Basile" <blueness@g.o>, Patrick Lauer <patrick@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Changing order of default virtual/udev provider
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2016 12:59:46
Message-Id: 1505E99F-6ADE-4541-AD9E-AB3B6594589C@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Changing order of default virtual/udev provider by Rich Freeman
1 > On Feb 17, 2016, at 7:25 AM, Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote:
2 >
3 >> On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 11:00 PM, Richard Yao <ryao@g.o> wrote:
4 >>
5 >> If userbase is what matters to you, then OpenRC+eudev won. It is the
6 >> logical choice for those concerned about userbase because that is what
7 >> the Linux ecosystem will be using going forward.
8 >
9 > Uh, if we cared solely about userbase we'd be using upstart. I'm
10 > pretty sure that there are more chromebooks out there than Docker
11 > containers running Alpine linux.
12 >
13 > Do people actually use docker images created by docker?
14
15 They do. Docker is popular because it enables developers to start microservices from prebuilt images. Those images by default are Alpine Linux, which means anything using udev in them is using eudev.