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On 2015-01-17, Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 4:09 AM, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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>> On Fri, 16 Jan 2015 19:40:57 -0500, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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>>> He isn't the first to make that observation. Many have pointed out |
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>>> that the testing branch today seems a lot like stable Gentoo used to |
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>>> be, and that we err too much on the side of not making big changes. |
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>>> However, I'm not sure that we really are afraid of breaking things so |
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>>> much that many of us have just grown comfortable with the way things |
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>>> have been done. |
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>> Also, in openrc Gentoo has an init system that is superior to those used |
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>> by other distros pre-systemd. Openrc has some of the benefits that |
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>> systemd offers other distros, like dependencies, so there is somewhat |
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>> less incentive to change. |
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> I definitely agree here. |
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> We actually went through an rc change when we deployed openrc, and it |
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> worked fine. |
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Looking back on the timeline, I see that I went through that change |
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with a few systems. I have absolutely no memory of it happening. |
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_That_ my friends is how it's supposed to work. Kudos to everybody |
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involved. |
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[And it's not because I have a bad memory, I still have vivid memories |
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of upgrades from RH 6.0 to RH 7.0 back in 2000 -- I'm talking about |
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the original RedHat Linux, not RHEL.] |
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Grant |
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