On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 10:56 AM, hasufell <hasuf...@gentoo.org> wrote: > Gentoo supports systemd, fine. Still, OpenRC is our default > implementation and I don't think something should be called stable _on > gentoo_ that doesn't work with the system tools we have designed and > advertise.
If a package requires libav should it never be stabilized, because ffmpeg is the default on that virtual? How about something that only supports vim or emacs, since nano is our default editor (something chosen as much for its size as the fact that everybody can agree that it isn't either vim or emacs)? OpenRC is just one init system that Gentoo supports. Gentoo does not require the use of OpenRC any more than it requires the use of portage as the package manager. Honestly, we're probably getting to the point where we should offer a choice of init systems in our handbook. It doesn't make sense for Gnome users to go configuring openrc in the handbook only to throw out all that work and start over with systemd. Don't get me wrong - there is nothing wrong with using OpenRC. There is just not anything special about it any longer. It is still common in the same way that baselayout-1 was common before it. It may or may not ever go away. However, it seems likely to me that the percentage of Gentoo systems that have systemd installed is only going to rise, and we need to deal with that. That isn't a choice we'll force on our users, but we can't really stop upstream from doing so. Right now I run both, in the future, I'm not so sure. Rich
