On 11/13/2014 3:42 PM, Andrei POPESCU <andreimpope...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Jo, 13 nov 14, 11:28:57, Tanstaafl wrote: >> >> Yes, apparently because someone actively sabotaged any possibility of >> OpenRC being considered by giving improper bad information on how to use >> it... > > OpenRC was "represented" by its Maintainer in the init debate (Thomas > Goirand). Are you saying he intentionally sabotaged it to not be > considered?
I'm not, but that seemed to be what someone else said - although when I asked for clarification, none was forthcoming: On 10/24/2014 7:07 AM, Tanstaafl <tansta...@libertytrek.org> wrote:> On 10/24/2014 4:49 AM, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard > <j.deboynepollard-newsgro...@ntlworld.com> wrote: >> Tanstaafl: >>> And why was OpenRC not a contender? >> Your question takes a falsehood as its premise. It actually was, >> contrary to what M. Popescu dismissively stated. Several members of >> the technical committee took it and tried to use it themselves, >> just as they did the other systems; and it was included on the >> formal ballots and in the votes. > I actually do remember reading a fleeting mention of it somewhere in > the vast sea of stuff I read when trying to catch up on this issue... > >> Contrastingly, the people who were propounding OpenRC at the >> time provided a good example of how NOT to go about doing so. Their >> several mistakes are worth learning from. > > Not sure I understand what you are saying here... > > Are you saying that some of the people who suggested OpenRC actually > provided BAD examples - meaning, examples that were destined to result > in problems - of how to use it in Debian? If so, maybe that was on > purpose, to decrease the chances of OpenRC being a real contender? > > The fact is, OpenRC has been the default init system on gentoo since I > don't know when, and I have *never* had an init problem on any of my > gentoo systems - although I admittedly never use unstable/testing for > system-critical packages either... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/54652207.7050...@libertytrek.org