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141121 Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> My personal sense is that in the medium-term we may end up |
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> moving to not having any default at all, |
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> just as with bootloaders, kernels, syslog, crontab, mail etc. |
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> That is pretty-much the Gentoo way everywhere else when there are options. |
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> As you already pointed out, as long as somebody cares to maintain openrc |
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> and write init scripts for it, there will be support for it. |
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> Many init scripts and systemd units are contributed by outside users already |
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> and policy is that maintainers cannot block them from being added to pkgs, |
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> though they do not have to write/maintain them personally. |
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> Gentoo doesn't really tend to exclude anything |
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> and inclusion is a matter of whether somebody wants to put in the work. |
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Adoption of Systemd by other major distros sb good for Gentoo. |
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Disgruntled Debians, Fedoras, Archies (IIRC they've also adopted it) |
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will have a choice of giving in or moving to Slackware or Gentoo. |
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Many of them may decide the moderate amount of extra work with Gentoo |
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is well worth the freedom to use a more traditional init system |
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& as serious programmers, many wb able to offer help to Gentoo development. |
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Time will tell, but probably fairly soon. |
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