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On 23/11/2014 23:45, Tanstaafl wrote: |
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> On 11/23/2014 4:21 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> There is no such thing as the "default init system". |
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>> There is only the one that portage will happen to install should you not |
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>> specify a preference. |
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> Lol! |
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> That is what I would call a 'default'... |
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Now you argue against yourself. You said earlier: |
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"Irrelevant. Since OpenRC is the default init system, any package that |
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doesn't work properly with it would, by definition, be a bug that must |
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be fixed - if the maintainer wants their package to be marked as |
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stable/usable by 99.99% of gentoo users." |
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Now that is simply not true, because there is no such requirement and |
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your "by definition" does not exist in fact. |
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There are at least two general meanings for default: |
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1. The one you get if you don't say otherwise. |
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2. The initial start point, which is fully supported and you can always |
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expect it to work. |
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I'm using the first definition. You are using the second. And in this |
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post you appear to be trying to bring it around that the first must |
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imply the second. That is just not true. |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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