2012/1/3 Olivier Crête <tes...@gentoo.org>: > A couple years ago, Gentoo was the forward looking distribution, ready > to try radical changes that break existing assumption, like our init > scripts with dependencies or our early use of udev. These days, I see so > much resistance to progress, it makes me sad.
I think the key is to keep huge changes optional to start with. This one feels like it is being pushed upon us. I don't really have a big problem with moving to /usr and all that. However, I do have some concerns with the larger direction that everybody is taking with vertical integration (which this is just a part of). For example, if eventually you can't run gnome without systemd where does that leave bsd gentoo users? Gentoo is about choice, and various upstream efforts are moving in the direction of giving users only one choice - take it or leave it. How do you install KDE and Gnome on the same system when they eventually want different sysvinit implementations. Will the RedHat and Ubuntu of the future have no more in common than Tivo and Android do today? Rich
