Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: The future of sys-apps/openrc in Gentoo

["Jory A. Pratt" <anarchy@gentoo.org>]

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On 08/23/2010 10:05 AM, Gilles Dartiguelongue wrote:
> Le lundi 05 juillet 2010 à 08:57 +0000, Duncan a écrit :
> [lots of stuff about bashisms and posix]
>> So let's stabilize OpenRC and be done with it, and /then/ we can debate 
>> where we want to go from there.
>>
> 
> YES, let's get it stable.
> 
> However please consider not re-adding bashisms and/or not make it less
> POSIX shell compliant than it already is at light speed. It is a great
> thing that openrc tries to achieve and allows more use of openrc than
> basic desktop/server gentoo usage (think embedded and other distros).
> At least one other distro did this move a while ago (debian) and I don't
> think they will go back. Seeing they are also moving to a dependency
> based init system, they probably could just run a fork of openrc (for
> their init scripts are not exactly compatible with what we do).
> 
There are still some bugs we are working on fixing. Once we are ready
for it to move stable we will. Anyone that is wanting to help get things
moving a bit faster can always join #gentoo-base and provide patches and
help resolve known issues.

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Jory A. Pratt                  anarchy -at- gentoo.org
Gentoo Mozilla Lead
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