[gentoo-dev] Re: openrc-0.8.1 stable candidate

[Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>]

Jeroen Roovers posted on Wed, 13 Apr 2011 18:43:27 +0200 as excerpted:

> 1) It's a couple of years old now. :)
> 2) Having used it all that time on some systems, I don't see that many
>    superficial changes, or for that matter, deviations from the old init
>    system. I would rather think baselayout-2/openrc simply extends and
>    improves on baselayout-1.

Having used and watched the new version evolve, I agree, to a point.  Yes 
it's an extension of the old.  But like that old tale of the frog in the 
boiling water, I think more has changed than we may realize at first.

Or another way to put it:  If it's so close to the old version, there 
should be little protest in going back.  But I know at least personally, 
I've *NO* interest in doing that!

For one thing, /real/ parallel boot makes quite a difference!  For 
another, I remember baselayout-1's lack of real dependency based ordering 
in early-boot, with the arbitrary ordered list of early-start services as 
a substitute since it couldn't manage dependencies at that level.

But that said, it's a definite extension of the ideas found in 
baselayout-1, indeed.  Stable Gentooers should find much they already know 
in the new system.  It's certainly not the change that switching to 
systemd, for example, would be.

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