Re: [gentoo-dev] Baselayout-2 progress?

[Roy Marples <roy@marples.name>]

On Friday 29 February 2008 15:56:44 Ed W wrote:
> Alon Bar-Lev wrote:
> > Check out OpenRC it is baselayout successor and works great!
>
> Funnily enough I came across this earlier today for different reasons.
> However, I hadn't realised that it was a full baselayout competitor?
>
> Does Roy hang out here?  Roy: Is this intended to be a baselayout
> replacement?  How likely is this to be on-track to become a "gentoo
> official" baselayout?  Do you (try to) support busybox and vserver
> environments?

It's not a full baselayout competitor - instead it's reduced baselayout to 
providing key base files such as /etc/passwd. OpenRC is just the service 
management system.

Yes
Yes [1]
A done deal [1]
No [2]

[1] The Gentoo Council and Gentoo base-system team know and approve of OpenRC.
Mike Frysinger of the Gentoo base-system team also has commit access to the 
git repo. So it's very very likely.

[2] I use busybox as a shell and can support it when it's internal 
start-stop-daemon applet disabled (as OpenRC has it's own variant). I don't 
and probably never will support vserver personally, but will work with Gentoo 
developers ensuring that at least one version works. In other words, I'll try 
and support it but it may break from time to time.

Thanks

Roy
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