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From: "Jory A. Pratt" <anarchy@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: The future of sys-apps/openrc in Gentoo
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 15:17:08
Message-Id: 4C7290E2.6050300@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: The future of sys-apps/openrc in Gentoo by Gilles Dartiguelongue
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4 On 08/23/2010 10:05 AM, Gilles Dartiguelongue wrote:
5 > Le lundi 05 juillet 2010 à 08:57 +0000, Duncan a écrit :
6 > [lots of stuff about bashisms and posix]
7 >> So let's stabilize OpenRC and be done with it, and /then/ we can debate
8 >> where we want to go from there.
9 >>
10 >
11 > YES, let's get it stable.
12 >
13 > However please consider not re-adding bashisms and/or not make it less
14 > POSIX shell compliant than it already is at light speed. It is a great
15 > thing that openrc tries to achieve and allows more use of openrc than
16 > basic desktop/server gentoo usage (think embedded and other distros).
17 > At least one other distro did this move a while ago (debian) and I don't
18 > think they will go back. Seeing they are also moving to a dependency
19 > based init system, they probably could just run a fork of openrc (for
20 > their init scripts are not exactly compatible with what we do).
21 >
22 There are still some bugs we are working on fixing. Once we are ready
23 for it to move stable we will. Anyone that is wanting to help get things
24 moving a bit faster can always join #gentoo-base and provide patches and
25 help resolve known issues.
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