Re: [gentoo-user] Re: The future of linux, and Gentoo specifically now

[Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>]

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On Sun, 23 Nov 2014 15:25:07 -0500, Tanstaafl wrote:

> > The current Gentoo policy is that maintainers cannot block other devs
> > from adding support for systemd/openrc/etc to their packages if they
> > lack such support.  Gentoo policy does NOT require maintainers to
> > support any particular init system.
> > 
> > If you feel otherwise, I suggest you cite the policy.  
> 
> Interesting... packages don't have to support the default init system...
> 
> Can anyone say 'can of worms'?

Well, if it goes the way Rich suggests, there won't be a default init
system so this won't be an issue.

Gentoo is about choice, defaults are there for when you can't be bothered
to make the choice yourself, which makes defaults largely irrelevant in
the Gentoo way of doing things.

And if the default init system does become virtual/init, will you care or
even notice? It was only when installing a new system recently that I saw
that the default for virtual/cron was no longer vixie-cron, yet none of
my systems using vixie stopped working...

The choice will always be there as long as at least one person cares
enough to ensure the choice is there. 


-- 
Neil Bothwick

To most people solutions mean finding the answers.  But to chemists
solutions are things that are still all mixed up.

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