On Mon, 6 Aug 2012 08:05:42 -0400
Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 7:56 AM, Fabian Groffen <grob...@gentoo.org>
> wrote:
> > While OpenRC is likely perfectly capable of starting/stopping
> > daemons as a normal user (with some tweaks), I expect systemd
> > replacing init, to already have a fair bit of isssues with being
> > just a normal unprivileged user.  I may be wrong, of course.
> > However, the notorious reputation of that piece of software aiming
> > for system-domination doesn't really make it sound to me like it
> > ever will be a good match for Prefix.
> 
> Yup, hence my final comment.  However, I suspect that the
> multitude-of-init-systems is going to be a somewhat temporary
> condition for a few years, and after that with the amount of vertical
> integration everybody is pushing one may win out.  If that happens,
> we'll all be using whatever that ends up being, regardless of whether
> it is a good match for Prefix.  If the world remains heterogeneous
> then most likely Gentoo will remain as such also, and other than all
> the package maintainers having to supply 3 different init scripts for
> their pacakges all will be well for Prefix.

I would be really happy if openrc supported systemd units. Or any other
good unit format but it's probably too late to invent anything here...


-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny

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