2015-01-22 4:23 GMT-06:00 James <wirel...@tampabay.rr.com>: > Emre Eryilmaz <emre.eryilmaz <at> piesso.com> writes: > > >> > Anyone tested openrc on Arch linux? > >> Did you read the web page's beginning ? :) >> " Note: Arch uses systemd by default. If you use OpenRC, please >> mention so while asking for help." > > > I think that stating what codes you are using, that might affect > helps one seeks, is pretty much accepted netiquette, ymmv. > > > AS to the robustness of Openrc on Arch; well that is why I'm asking > here if anyone has experiences with Openrc on Arch (actually testing Openrc > on Arch Linux) and not just conjecture or attitude about it. > > Just (test) experiences, ok? > >
Systemd is the only officially 'supported' init system in ArchLinux. other init systems are from the AUR[1]. I was an Arch user a while ago, as an Arch user you would want as less as possible stuff from AUR, many times it means poorly written PKBUILD's[2] and not maintained, It's common that upgrading from the main repos would break some AUR stuff, then anyone can upload anything to the AUR repo. It's a bit like using a random not well maintained overlay in gentoo, often not in-sync with the portage tree, it might work or it might not even build. If you read the wiki page you posted you will notice it's mainly two users(a manjaro developer is one of them), installing openrc in different ways[3][4], don't expect robustness when they can't even join forces to maintain a single effort, unnecessarily duplicating work, and one of those deviates from the Gentoo way. For a package to be moved into the main repos it needs to have many votes in the AUR, if you look at the votes of those, the non-gentoo way[3] hast 17 and the gentoo way[4] has 3, not really popular considering there are packages with 1K+ votes, and are still in the AUR. You should ask via Arch or Manjaro channels for testing experience, or try manjaro yourself (OpenRC isn't their default either but they have prebuilt packages installable with pacman[5]). Even better search for artoo(the Manjaro developer[6] porting it to that distro) and apg, they are doing the work, I doubt you will get the responses you want from this list. [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_User_Repository [2] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PKGBUILD [3] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/openrc/ [4] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/openrc-core/ [5] https://wiki.manjaro.org/index.php?title=OpenRC,_an_alternative_to_systemd [6] http://manjaro.github.io/team/
