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On 22 Oct 2010, at 12:29, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> ... Openrc will be stabilised at some time, |
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> so you may as well do the upgrade when you feel like it rather that when |
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> the devs decide to flip a keyword. |
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I thought this was a matter of debate - Openrc was IIRC the creation of Roy Marples, who was originally a Gentoo dev and the baselayout maintainer. |
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As Roy developed baselayout 2 (or "baselayout - The Next Generation", as you might call it) he decided to generalise it, AFAICT, in order to make it useful to other distros or unices (e.g. the BSDs). |
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Roy is no longer a Gentoo dev and is no longer maintaining Openrc: |
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http://roy.marples.name/projects/openrc |
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I understood the future of Openrc within Gentoo to be in question: |
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http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_ce55de133ca592b638db758c9e457370.xml |
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or http://tinyurl.com/3xglcqb |
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Roy is the author, his own words: |
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The fact that several people said they would attempt a |
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stable push and then gave up (I was one - lol) says quite a |
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bit really. |
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That Gentoo-dev thread was 3 or 4 months ago, and I haven't read all of it today. But based on my understanding, I would discourage anyone in stable from migrating to Openrc unless they need to, or unless they're deciding to run entirely ~arch packages on their system. From my understanding I would "wait and see", and migrate when the devs decide the time is right for a mass migration of stable users. |
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Stroller. |
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