On 9/16/19, fredbezies via aur-general <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello. > > Note: posting in the right mailing list now. Oops! > > I hope it is the right place to discuss about this issue. I noticed > there is a lot of OpenRC related packages on AUR. I don't want to > start a flamewar, I just want to know what is going on with these > PKGBUILDs. > > A quick search gave me 42 answers - some not related to this init > system - 95% of them last updated between 2015 and 2018. > > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?O=0&K=openrc > > Is there any interest of keeping these PKGBUILDs?
These packages all have maintainers and some of them have votes. So clearly there is. > There is an official > Archlinux + OpenRC init system called Artix, providing a migration > guide from Arch or Manjaro. > > It is also listed in > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch-based_distributions#Active > > "Artix Linux *2016, previously Arch-OpenRC" > > https://artixlinux.org/ > https://wiki.artixlinux.org/Main/Migration > > By the way, it is written in the wiki that : "Warning: Arch Linux only > has official support for systemd. When using OpenRC, please mention so > in support requests." Making it easier to use things that are not officially supported is one of the purposes of the AUR. > Source: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/OpenRC > > Is there any explanations for keeping them? Yes. The submission guidelines [1] clearly permit this type of package. Note that the AUR also has dpkg, rpm and several packages for ARM. > Thanks for your answers. > > -- > Frederic Bezies > [email protected] > [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR_submission_guidelines#Rules_of_submission
