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 63C5E138A1A for ; Sun, 23 Nov 2014 20:35:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6D190E0B02; Sun, 23 Nov 2014 20:35:49 +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 1A8C8E0ADF for ; Sun, 23 Nov 2014 20:35:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from digimed.co.uk (shooty.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.8]) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 0B57F29309 for ; Sun, 23 Nov 2014 20:35:46 +0000 (GMT) Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 20:35:41 +0000 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: The future of linux, and Gentoo specifically now Message-ID: <20141123203541.2ccd11ef@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <547242A3.30403@libertytrek.org> References: <546EE70C.2050506@yourstruly.sx> <54721CEC.1020902@libertytrek.org> <20141123180055.GC2139@vidovic.ultras.lan> <547228FC.6080703@libertytrek.org> <547242A3.30403@libertytrek.org> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.11.1-26-g00cade (GTK+ 2.24.25; x86_64-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_/DQXlltamEaYSz/s.rAy/Ekp"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 7b29309f-6a11-434e-9f55-e537082c7c45 X-Archives-Hash: 3811d0705afbfe877ad999a6ec8732ef --Sig_/DQXlltamEaYSz/s.rAy/Ekp Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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. > >=20 > > If you feel otherwise, I suggest you cite the policy. =20 >=20 > Interesting... packages don't have to support the default init system... >=20 > 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.=20 --=20 Neil Bothwick To most people solutions mean finding the answers. But to chemists solutions are things that are still all mixed up. --Sig_/DQXlltamEaYSz/s.rAy/Ekp Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlRyRSIACgkQum4al0N1GQMy0gCaA1sBiSRLXOibqa+krOX4IbgW y9EAn3dLtIc2NLUu8zrtvpq891vA5Tud =WF30 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/DQXlltamEaYSz/s.rAy/Ekp--