Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple Update Issues - what order should things be done?

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On Monday 08 March 2010 20:25:25 Tanstaafl wrote:
> On 2010-03-08 8:05 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > It feels like baselayout-2 and openrc have been in ~arch for a year
> > or more, so there's no telling when it will move to stable. I haven't
> > seen any indication from the dev either. In other words, only that
> > dev knows what his plans are.
> 
> As always... ;) thanks...
> 
> Almost forgot - are there any substantive advantages to moving to it,
> other than just getting it done now so you don't have to do it later?


baselayout-a/openrc is New! Shiny! Cool! Bleeding Edge new stuff! and you get 
brownie points for running the latest greatest software. Plus, if it breaks 
you get to fix both pieces and garner even more brownie points.

That's not a joke, many people run ~arch for that reason :-)

On the serious side, baselayout-1 is a hodgepodge of cruft accumulated over 
the years, it only works well on Linux and requires bash. The various configs 
are scattered around in a way that can only be documented as "the standard is 
whatever baselayout is doing today". In brief, this is probably the second 
worst thing it could possibly be. First place would be "nothing whatsoever"

baselayout-2 is an effort to have a base layout that is sane, portable, works 
on other OSes, is not tied to bash and/or portage (neither of which are 
guaranteed) and is written in portable C. So all-round, the new one is the 
better solution for new installs.

However, in your case, I feel that "it ain't broke, don't fix it!" would 
prevail.

 
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