On Thu, 5 Jun 2014 06:23:38 +0100
Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> wrote:

> Are you saying that as things stand it is a matter of time before a
> gentoo user will have to switch from openrc to systemd, if they
> want/need to continue using sleep and hibernate?

For them to have support for sleep and hibernate, someone needs to
develop / maintain it in order to adapt to kernel API changes; as long
as the only one doing this is systemd, you'll work towards only it
being supported there in the future.

In other words, if people want to see this be continued in other places
than systemd; they need to either be verbal enough to convince someone
to do the work, or do the work involved themselves.

There are easily at least 100 users interested in further support.

So, if some developers and/or users can find the time, will and
interest to do so the cost to implement it; it will certainly be worth
to do for the benefit of making a ton of users happy in the future.

TL;DR: A simple equation: If someone stops development upstream,
someone else needs to start developing to keep that work{,ing}.

-- 
With kind regards,

Tom Wijsman (TomWij)
Gentoo Developer

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