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Richard Freeman posted on Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:16:29 -0400 as excerpted: |
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> And my point was essentially that we should finish doing that, and not |
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> bag the whole project because of the OpenRC upstream issues. Sure, we |
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> can think about the next great thing that is coming along, but let's not |
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> abandon the work done so far, because doing so means living with |
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> baselayout-1 for another few more years. |
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AFAIK, you're arguing the (possible, but really never became more than a |
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potential) debate of several months ago. As OpenRC was originally from |
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Gentoo's baselayout, it's not a big problem to re-adopt it as upstream |
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once again, certainly less of a problem at this late date than staying on |
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baselayout-1 stable for another several years would be likely to be, given |
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how legacy it is, and how close to stable it already is. The loss of |
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external upstream was just one more hiccup of a number of them over the |
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years, and isn't a big problem, especially when someone's already stepped |
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for the job. |
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Perhaps we'll eventually switch to something else, but having seen the |
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pains openrc went thru, I'd certainly not want to jump on to upstart or |
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the like at this point. Let the new round of candidates mature a bit, and |
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then do an evaluation. Meanwhile, what few bugs remain for openrc |
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stabilization pale in comparison to the bugs and adaption issues we'd have |
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moving to something else, and baselayout-1 really /is/ anachronistic and |
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not a particularly viable option at this point, so for the medium term, |
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openrc remains the only really viable option. |
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But that was pretty much decided some time ago, based on my following of |
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the relevant discussions here and elsewhere, so why are you arguing a |
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point that's not being argued any more? I believe that's what Mike's |
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WTFing about. It's not that you're wrong, you're not, it's that you're |
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debating a question that's no longer being asked. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |