On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 12:36 PM, Philip Webb <purs...@ca.inter.net> wrote: > > Adoption of Systemd by other major distros sb good for Gentoo. > Disgruntled Debians, Fedoras, Archies (IIRC they've also adopted it) > will have a choice of giving in or moving to Slackware or Gentoo. > Many of them may decide the moderate amount of extra work with Gentoo > is well worth the freedom to use a more traditional init system > & as serious programmers, many wb able to offer help to Gentoo development.
I wouldn't bet to much on that. One of the most vocal anti-systemd Debian users tried either Gento or Funtoo and reported that installation and maintenance were difficult. Binary distros do make things rather easier, especially if you start to play with USE flags on a source distro.
