From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OVbM8-0000fP-6w for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 05 Jul 2010 02:24:24 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 25B17E0B5B; Mon, 5 Jul 2010 02:24:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vms173015pub.verizon.net (vms173015pub.verizon.net [206.46.173.15]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E7E9E0B41 for ; Mon, 5 Jul 2010 02:24:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from gw.thefreemanclan.net ([unknown] [96.245.231.248]) by vms173015.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.02 32bit (built Apr 16 2009)) with ESMTPA id <0L52004AUBZQNOB1@vms173015.mailsrvcs.net> for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 04 Jul 2010 21:24:03 -0500 (CDT) Received: from [192.168.0.5] (rich.homedns.org [192.168.0.5]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by gw.thefreemanclan.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A615C175A4EF for ; Sun, 04 Jul 2010 22:23:49 -0400 (EDT) Message-id: <4C314233.8030809@gentoo.org> Date: Sun, 04 Jul 2010 22:23:47 -0400 From: Richard Freeman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.10) Gecko/20100623 Thunderbird/3.0.5 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: The future of sys-apps/openrc in Gentoo References: <201007041630.07537.polynomial-c@gentoo.org> <20100704133949.0cda055a@gentoo.org> <4C30EA89.4020806@gentoo.org> In-reply-to: <4C30EA89.4020806@gentoo.org> Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 04150781-eb0e-461b-9b36-9d0c449b845b X-Archives-Hash: 31830675a7b4ba2c896e1bf33b27d73f On 07/04/2010 04:09 PM, Jory A. Pratt wrote: > For those of you not on the #gentoo-dev channel, I just announced I am > gonna be looking at the openrc code and fixing the bugs and working to > continue the development. Anyone that is interested in helping please > feel free to contact me off list to discuss how we will handle getting > openrc back on track. > Well, openrc isn't any worse than baselayout-1 for upstream support. However, I do agree that we should strongly try to standardize on something that is more cross-platform if possible. I'd rather not push to make openrc stable (which means lots of migration for users), only to then move to something else anyway. Why have two migrations when you can just have one? If Gentoo just wants to own openrc and not use something else long-term, then by all means let's get it done. Rich