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

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On 23/11/2014 20:35, Tanstaafl wrote:
> On 11/23/2014 1:00 PM, Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-dev@laposte.net> wrote:
>> On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 12:44:12PM -0500, Tanstaafl wrote:
>>> Since OpenRC is the *default* - for now at least - it is *king*, and
>>> systemd is the red-headed step-child, and as such OpenRC is and will be
>>> 100% fully supported.
>>>
>>> With that in mind, it is also 100% on the *systemd proponents* to make
>>> sure that *systemd* is 'fully supported' as an *alternate* init system.
>>
>> You're wrong.
> 
> Really? OpenRC isn't the default init system for Gentoo? Prove it...
> 
>> At first, Gentoo does with what software maintainers offer. 
> 
> Irrelevant. Since OpenRC is the default init system, any package that
> doesn't work properly with it would, by definition, be a bug that must
> be fixed - if the maintainer wants their package to be marked as
> stable/usable by 99.99% of gentoo users.

That is not true. In Gentoo, "default package" almost always means "the
package portage will chose to install unless you say otherwise".

It means nothing more than that. It especially does not mean what you
imply wrt bugs and the severity thereof. It does not imply some favoured
status for the default package, and that package is most often the
default for simple historical reasons dating way back to when it was the
only choice.


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Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com