On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 10:25 AM, Tanstaafl <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2010-03-08 8:05 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> It feels like baselayout-2 and openrc have been in ~arch for a year >> or more, so there's no telling when it will move to stable. I haven't >> seen any indication from the dev either. In other words, only that >> dev knows what his plans are. > > As always... ;) thanks... > > Almost forgot - are there any substantive advantages to moving to it, > other than just getting it done now so you don't have to do it later? > > -- > > Charles > >
I've been looking at it myself. I think it boots faster if you shut your machines down at night. Other than that I think it's mostly an under-the-hood sort of thing. I'm a user-type also and thinking of building a big, expensive number cruncher so I was looking at it from the perspective of starting off with baselayout-2 just so I wouldn't have to do it later. - Mark
