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From: Tanstaafl <tanstaafl@×××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: The future of linux, and Gentoo specifically now
Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 18:35:47
Message-Id: 547228FC.6080703@libertytrek.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: The future of linux, and Gentoo specifically now by Nicolas Sebrecht
1 On 11/23/2014 1:00 PM, Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-dev@×××××××.net> wrote:
2 > On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 12:44:12PM -0500, Tanstaafl wrote:
3 >> Since OpenRC is the *default* - for now at least - it is *king*, and
4 >> systemd is the red-headed step-child, and as such OpenRC is and will be
5 >> 100% fully supported.
6 >>
7 >> With that in mind, it is also 100% on the *systemd proponents* to make
8 >> sure that *systemd* is 'fully supported' as an *alternate* init system.
9 >
10 > You're wrong.
11
12 Really? OpenRC isn't the default init system for Gentoo? Prove it...
13
14 > At first, Gentoo does with what software maintainers offer.
15
16 Irrelevant. Since OpenRC is the default init system, any package that
17 doesn't work properly with it would, by definition, be a bug that must
18 be fixed - if the maintainer wants their package to be marked as
19 stable/usable by 99.99% of gentoo users.

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