Jeroen Roovers posted on Wed, 13 Apr 2011 18:43:27 +0200 as excerpted: > 1) It's a couple of years old now. :) > 2) Having used it all that time on some systems, I don't see that many > superficial changes, or for that matter, deviations from the old init > system. I would rather think baselayout-2/openrc simply extends and > improves on baselayout-1.
Having used and watched the new version evolve, I agree, to a point. Yes it's an extension of the old. But like that old tale of the frog in the boiling water, I think more has changed than we may realize at first. Or another way to put it: If it's so close to the old version, there should be little protest in going back. But I know at least personally, I've *NO* interest in doing that! For one thing, /real/ parallel boot makes quite a difference! For another, I remember baselayout-1's lack of real dependency based ordering in early-boot, with the arbitrary ordered list of early-start services as a substitute since it couldn't manage dependencies at that level. But that said, it's a definite extension of the ideas found in baselayout-1, indeed. Stable Gentooers should find much they already know in the new system. It's certainly not the change that switching to systemd, for example, would be. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
