Re: [gentoo-user] Get off my lawn?

[Rich Freeman]

On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 4:09 AM, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Jan 2015 19:40:57 -0500, Rich Freeman wrote:
>
>> He isn't the first to make that observation.  Many have pointed out
>> that the testing branch today seems a lot like stable Gentoo used to
>> be, and that we err too much on the side of not making big changes.
>>
>> However, I'm not sure that we really are afraid of breaking things so
>> much that many of us have just grown comfortable with the way things
>> have been done.
>
> Also, in openrc Gentoo has an init system that is superior to those used
> by other distros pre-systemd. Openrc has some of the benefits that
> systemd offers other distros, like dependencies, so there is somewhat
> less incentive to change.
>

I definitely agree here.

We actually went through an rc change when we deployed openrc, and it
worked fine.  There were bugs not unlike what some run into with
systemd - anytime you replace something old with something new you get
regressions.  We also really too our time with the switchover, which
is something most distros don't seem to be doing with systemd (to
their users's detriment - I think burning bridges gets encouraged by
the politics to prevent backtracking).  I think it took years between
the ~arch and stable dates for baselayout-2 on Gentoo.

-- 
Rich