On 2017-02-01T08:35:32+0000, Cág wrote: > Marc Collin wrote: > > > Gentoo's init system (OpenRC) could soon > > move from Makefiles to Meson and add > > python3 and ninja to dependencies because > > of it. > > https://github.com/OpenRC/openrc/issues/116 > > Isn't Portage written in Python? Gentoo uses > glibc, coreutils, the package manager is in Python > and now there will be Python in the init system. > That's too much for a suckless distribution, > in my humble opinion.
For what it's worth, 2/3 of my Gentoo machines use musl, and 2/3 use s6 as the init system. Parts of Portage do have a hard dependency on bash, though, which really sucks. -- S. Gilles
