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

[Doug Klima <cardoe@gentoo.org>]

Ed W wrote:
> Hi
>
>> baselayout-2 was renamed to openrc when Roy left Gentoo as an 
>> official dev.
>
> Answering my own question (for the record). I found some explanation 
> here:
> http://lycos.dropcode.net/gregarius/author.php?author=Roy_Marples__uberlord_ 
>
>
>>> 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?
>> Don't know. Yes. Very. Yes & Yes.
>
> Excellent - this is exciting to hear
>
> On the other hand since there still isn't a masked ebuild in portage 
> (and I seem some notes on my on Roy's site) then I have to assume that 
> in fact we are still a good way away from calling it a replacement and 
> starting to push it out to users?
>
> Would it not make sense to start to snapshot some builds and push 
> openrc out for testing?  (Seems like a gentoo job rather than an 
> upstream is the reason I ask here?)
>
> Cheers
>
> Ed W
sudo emerge layman
sudo layman -L
sudo layman -a openrc
sudo emerge openrc
sudo etc-update
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