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 E8B4A138A1C for ; Fri, 21 Nov 2014 11:57:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7B06FE08C4; Fri, 21 Nov 2014 11:57:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ie0-f169.google.com (mail-ie0-f169.google.com [209.85.223.169]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7320DE0870 for ; Fri, 21 Nov 2014 11:57:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ie0-f169.google.com with SMTP id y20so4745849ier.28 for ; Fri, 21 Nov 2014 03:57:04 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=lMRNL6zSiyhoMezUgql25Boj3ON/7FF81WnHTOe4I4Y=; b=NlIRg6zceAr0HQOgVGBfxOJvDrWsH6iAW6NBn+QvHDAtZwzKmkQg8jF2qSWc/ViVC+ pJbMQtLmnLnQ5ZB9PW2cVbVtQD7+fLE33o5dJ7Ui3Z4t5y9x5IHYVoP83n7gWSqSN3ab vvFfVsiBnC9mVfEZcM3rXH2Ym0BxWmjANfsN94pm5YsZ/pWCOtp4BSl5kSIi+yUOG6im 6QYcBxhsIZzEjLnXRZOXxcHe8odTI9pIkWqsdt+Sg0hwbRlmBhMFP0gPQgmzlYnWKNrS KzKeWRjRX2yMJv3ZEp99p3eH3edatN6i7tuLnYXrNNIhIaj/brZrOM5ejKjmk4EZw0cH bYzw== 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 X-Received: by 10.107.10.93 with SMTP id u90mr3529098ioi.13.1416571024617; Fri, 21 Nov 2014 03:57:04 -0800 (PST) Sender: freemanrich@gmail.com Received: by 10.107.9.80 with HTTP; Fri, 21 Nov 2014 03:57:04 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <546EE70C.2050506@yourstruly.sx> Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 06:57:04 -0500 X-Google-Sender-Auth: MOBPkXFsFfSiPHCiqdFGMw7LWss Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] The future of linux, and Gentoo specifically now From: Rich Freeman To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: bc97c0e6-923e-4901-81c6-79d38e6ef5a3 X-Archives-Hash: 3dda2daaacaf33b1f66dace5de858b7d On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 2:32 AM, Canek Pel=C3=A1ez Vald=C3=A9s wrote: > It's actually a great thing for a lot of use cases. But it doesn't > seem that Gentoo will change defaults soon, although systemd works > great with it. > 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 packages (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. -- Rich