On 2015-01-17, Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 4:09 AM, Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote: >> On Fri, 16 Jan 2015 19:40:57 -0500, Rich Freeman wrote: >> >>> He isn't the first to make that observation. Many have pointed out >>> that the testing branch today seems a lot like stable Gentoo used to >>> be, and that we err too much on the side of not making big changes. >>> >>> However, I'm not sure that we really are afraid of breaking things so >>> much that many of us have just grown comfortable with the way things >>> have been done. >> >> Also, in openrc Gentoo has an init system that is superior to those used >> by other distros pre-systemd. Openrc has some of the benefits that >> systemd offers other distros, like dependencies, so there is somewhat >> less incentive to change. >> > > I definitely agree here. > > We actually went through an rc change when we deployed openrc, and it > worked fine.
Looking back on the timeline, I see that I went through that change with a few systems. I have absolutely no memory of it happening. _That_ my friends is how it's supposed to work. Kudos to everybody involved. [And it's not because I have a bad memory, I still have vivid memories of upgrades from RH 6.0 to RH 7.0 back in 2000 -- I'm talking about the original RedHat Linux, not RHEL.] -- Grant
