Re: [gentoo-dev] OpenRC & baselayout-2 meets Gentoo

[Josh Saddler <nightmorph@gentoo.org>]

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Doug Goldstein wrote:
> All,
> 
> This is a formal notice to everyone that OpenRC will be hitting the 
> Gentoo tree sooner rather then later. I would like to see *ALL* arch 
> teams give the current code a whirl on their systems, which is available 
> via the layman module "openrc".
> 
> I would also like to give the docs team a chance to weigh in here and 
> work with me on a migration guide as well as any necessary updates.

The installation handbooks won't be changed until openrc & baselayout-2 
are stabilized and shipped with the stage3 tarballs.

The same goes for our existing documentation. Until the new baselayout & 
openrc are stabilized, made the default, *and* the old stuff is marked 
deprecated, don't expect it to show up in our other documents alongside 
baselayout-1 content. The last thing I want is to fork our documentation 
code samples, and duplicate everything with "if you're on baselayout2 
and/or openrc, do this instead...." instructions. That type of thing is 
a maintenance and usability headache. It's all or nothing. "There can be 
only one!"

I'll be working on the migration guide with Cardoe (and possibly Roy, if 
we can tag-team him into submission). As much of a pain as migration 
will be, we'll definitely need a howto. Fun, fun.




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