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On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 11:44 AM, Tanstaafl <tanstaafl@×××××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> On 11/21/2014 2:32 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés <caneko@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> As long as there are developers willing and able to support OpenRC in |
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>> Gentoo (and it looks like there are), that will be the case. To make |
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>> sure that this remains to be true, help them. |
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> This is really an incorrect (and even borderline arrogant) answer... |
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You are, of course, wrong. Mine is the correct (and actually the only) answer. |
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> To answer the OPs question correctly... |
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> Since OpenRC is the *default* - for now at least - it is *king*, and |
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> systemd is the red-headed step-child, and as such OpenRC is and will be |
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> 100% fully supported. |
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From Rich Freeman in this very thread, who (unlike you or me) is a |
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Gentoo dev, and a member of the council to boot: |
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My (personal) sense is that in the medium-term we may end up moving to |
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not having any default at all, just as with bootloaders, kernels, |
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syslog, crontab, mail, etc. That is pretty-much the Gentoo way |
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everywhere else when there are options. |
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As you already pointed out, as long as somebody cares to maintain |
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openrc and write init scripts for it, there will be support for it. |
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> With that in mind, it is also 100% on the *systemd proponents* to make |
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> sure that *systemd* is 'fully supported' as an *alternate* init system. |
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And that's exactly what's happening... in Gentoo, GNOME officially |
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supports only systemd, not OpenRC. |
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Who is king again? |
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> Side-note, unless the nature of systemd changes quite a bit for the |
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> better in the future, if its supporters are ever able to force a change |
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> to it as the default init in gentoo, that will be the day I switch to |
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> FreeBSD. |
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You should read: |
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http://www.slideshare.net/iXsystems/jordan-hubbard-free-bsd-the-next-10-years |
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It's a presentation from a Core FreeBSD developer about the future of |
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FreeBSD. Of particular interest is slide 33: |
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""" |
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• I'm trying really hard not to suggest launchd here (so I won't) |
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• The idea of registering everything up-front with a broker and then |
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letting IPC / timers / HW events start things from there (in cascade |
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fashion) is still the right architecture |
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• Even the linux die-hards have essentially grasped the necessity of |
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systemd (even though they're going to hate on it for awhile longer) |
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""" |
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So, don't be surprised if FreeBSD develops something *really* similar |
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(along the lines of the second bullet) to systemd in the future |
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Regards. |
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Canek Peláez Valdés |
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Profesor de asignatura, Facultad de Ciencias |
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Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México |