Apparently, though unproven, at 22:52 on Friday 22 October 2010, Dale did opine thusly:
> Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Apparently, though unproven, at 18:19 on Friday 22 October 2010, Stroller > > did > > > > opine thusly: > >> On 22 Oct 2010, at 12:29, Neil Bothwick wrote: > >>> ... Openrc will be stabilised at some time, > >>> so you may as well do the upgrade when you feel like it rather that > >>> when the devs decide to flip a keyword. > >> > >> I thought this was a matter of debate - Openrc was IIRC the creation of > >> Roy Marples, who was originally a Gentoo dev and the baselayout > >> maintainer. > >> > >> As Roy developed baselayout 2 (or "baselayout - The Next Generation", as > >> you might call it) he decided to generalise it, AFAICT, in order to make > >> it useful to other distros or unices (e.g. the BSDs). > >> > >> Roy is no longer a Gentoo dev and is no longer maintaining Openrc: > >> http://roy.marples.name/projects/openrc > >> > >> I understood the future of Openrc within Gentoo to be in question: > >> http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_ce55de133ca592b638db758c9e4573 > >> 70. xml or http://tinyurl.com/3xglcqb > > > > Did you and I read the same mail thread? I read all of it - did you? > > > > The end result of that is not that there is a question over openrc, it is > > that openrc will proceed. And anyone else that wants to pursue systemd > > or any other init system is free to go ahead and show up on gentoo-dev > > with running code. Meanwhile, openrc is where it's going. > > > > The thread started with someone wondering about openrc; I disagree with > > your conclusion about where it ended. > > That was what I recalled about the openrc discussion too. It is coming > but just not sure when. Me, I'm not switching until it starts getting > closer to that time. It, like some of the newer versions of portage, > appears to be stable and is used by many people but is not marked stable > yet. Both of those sort of confuse me sometimes. > > I'm just hoping that when the switch comes, it is painless. Just do it. Seriously. There are three blockers holding baselayout-2/openrc back, none of them affect you: 1. {something rare, I forget} 2. Something wierd about evms on weird arches 3. Some obscure mdadm thing Those are blockers, true enough. But they are *Gentoo* blockers, not *Dale's Gentoo* blockers. Seriously, just do it. You'll be glad you did. You'll spend an hour or three double checking lots of stuff in /etc/conf.d/ and then you can reap permanent benefits. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
