From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F8D6138A1C for ; Fri, 21 Nov 2014 17:36:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 033FFE0998; Fri, 21 Nov 2014 17:36:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-1.ca.inter.net (mail-1.ca.inter.net [208.85.220.69]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3D283E097A for ; Fri, 21 Nov 2014 17:36:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (offload-3.ca.inter.net [208.85.220.70]) by mail-1.ca.inter.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8136A2EA42E for ; Fri, 21 Nov 2014 12:36:02 -0500 (EST) Received: from mail-1.ca.inter.net ([208.85.220.69]) by localhost (offload-3.ca.inter.net [208.85.220.70]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id Npd5eUncyerD for ; Fri, 21 Nov 2014 12:36:02 -0500 (EST) Received: from ca.inter.net (host-23-91-175-28.dyn.295.ca [23.91.175.28]) by mail-1.ca.inter.net (Postfix) with SMTP id F06672EB52A for ; Fri, 21 Nov 2014 12:36:00 -0500 (EST) Received: by ca.inter.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Fri, 21 Nov 2014 12:36:00 -0500 Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 12:36:00 -0500 From: Philip Webb To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] The future of linux, and Gentoo specifically now Message-ID: <20141121173600.GA1029@ca.inter.net> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <546EE70C.2050506@yourstruly.sx> 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: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.22 (2013-10-16) X-Archives-Salt: 3f9abe7e-a195-4546-aa74-adb866a99e17 X-Archives-Hash: 5f4cff1d48c79bde02c07ebf2c12bc94 141121 Rich Freeman wrote: > My personal sense is that in the medium-term we may end up > moving to not having any default at all, > just as with bootloaders, kernels, syslog, crontab, mail etc. > That is pretty-much the Gentoo way everywhere else when there are options. > As you already pointed out, as long as somebody cares to maintain openrc > and write init scripts for it, there will be support for it. > Many init scripts and systemd units are contributed by outside users already > and policy is that maintainers cannot block them from being added to pkgs, > though they do not have to write/maintain them personally. > Gentoo doesn't really tend to exclude anything > and inclusion is a matter of whether somebody wants to put in the work. Adoption of Systemd by other major distros sb good for Gentoo. Disgruntled Debians, Fedoras, Archies (IIRC they've also adopted it) will have a choice of giving in or moving to Slackware or Gentoo. Many of them may decide the moderate amount of extra work with Gentoo is well worth the freedom to use a more traditional init system & as serious programmers, many wb able to offer help to Gentoo development. Time will tell, but probably fairly soon. -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca