On 9 February 2016 at 16:09, Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> wrote: > There will always be a > "poppyseed linux" whose purpose in life seems to be to preserve linux > without sysfs or some other obscure practice.
This seems to be an attempt at painting the "stick with eudev" model as an "old fogies who are afraid of change". I think a better characterisation is that this is a battle of simplicity vs complexity[1] A pure udev system is in comparison, much simpler than a systemd system. And that's much of the beauty of OpenRC. Its simple, it achieves the same goals as Systemd and Upstart, etc, but does so with a lot less mechanics under the hood, and doesn't clutter up systems with features you don't need prematurely. And there are great benefits from simplicity over complexity. And a lot of Gentoo is surprisingly simple: Like our use of bash scripts for recipies to build things, like using rsync to deploy/relay not just those recipies, but security notices and news items, which are themselves reasonably simple formats. LFS and Slackware also seem to be platforms that leverage a lot of "Simplicity" in the way of offering you only the basics you need to get things done. They're not *easy* to use if you're a novice, but the systems themselves are simple. Thus, its not /merely/ a preference if a tool does things you don't need to do. Because "I don't need a login daemon" is not a "Preference", its an objective analysis of the systems requirements. The only preference I see here is the preference to not have and install things your system has no use for, which I find an odd preference to be complaining about, and depending on your system requirements, that may also be not so much "preference". 1: Related Viewing: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy -- Kent KENTNL - https://metacpan.org/author/KENTNL
