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 1P9NiN-0002BW-0V for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 22 Oct 2010 19:55:47 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 96F05E074C; Fri, 22 Oct 2010 19:54:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FE15E074C for ; Fri, 22 Oct 2010 19:54:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from digimed.co.uk (grunthos.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.4]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 7413E8FBFC5 for ; Fri, 22 Oct 2010 20:54:33 +0100 (BST) Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 20:54:25 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout --> openrc ? Message-ID: <20101022205425.32fec6ec@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <0B6D45A7-8D0E-45AB-8578-FC8F265B8C49@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> References: <4CC163BC.4060109@hadt.biz> <20101022071838.043cf89e@osage.osagesoftware.com> <20101022122901.6a54ef4c@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> <0B6D45A7-8D0E-45AB-8578-FC8F265B8C49@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.6cvs57 (GTK+ 2.20.1; i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/WZS1Puze3Kh/M1Ax9jLcPL6"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 06abdabc-1efb-4065-8074-be0e0db47884 X-Archives-Hash: e4d25f545d4fe1763d95923acb5d2d9d --Sig_/WZS1Puze3Kh/M1Ax9jLcPL6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 17:19:51 +0100, Stroller wrote: > > ... Openrc will be stabilised at some time, > > so you may as well do the upgrade when you feel like it rather that > > when the devs decide to flip a keyword. =20 >=20 > I thought this was a matter of debate - Openrc was IIRC the creation of > Roy Marples, who was originally a Gentoo dev and the baselayout > maintainer. >=20 > As Roy developed baselayout 2 (or "baselayout - The Next Generation", > as you might call it) he decided to generalise it, AFAICT, in order to > make it useful to other distros or unices (e.g. the BSDs). > Roy is no longer a Gentoo dev and is no longer maintaining Openrc: > http://roy.marples.name/projects/openrc I sit corrected. > I understood the future of Openrc within Gentoo to be in question: > http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_ce55de133ca592b638db758c9e45737= 0.xml An interesting read, until the rants start, we'll just have to wait and see. --=20 Neil Bothwick If you consult enough experts, you can confirm any opinion. --Sig_/WZS1Puze3Kh/M1Ax9jLcPL6 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkzB6/cACgkQum4al0N1GQO1cwCg1JrCGX2GCsnoHJZjmSlvWThv Ta0An0pDnKgqInSNu6p2PMBDCVbMQ/rc =YzYl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/WZS1Puze3Kh/M1Ax9jLcPL6--