On 22 Oct 2010, at 12:29, Neil Bothwick wrote: > ... Openrc will be stabilised at some time, > so you may as well do the upgrade when you feel like it rather that when > the devs decide to flip a keyword.
I thought this was a matter of debate - Openrc was IIRC the creation of Roy Marples, who was originally a Gentoo dev and the baselayout maintainer. As Roy developed baselayout 2 (or "baselayout - The Next Generation", as you might call it) he decided to generalise it, AFAICT, in order to make it useful to other distros or unices (e.g. the BSDs). Roy is no longer a Gentoo dev and is no longer maintaining Openrc: http://roy.marples.name/projects/openrc I understood the future of Openrc within Gentoo to be in question: http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_ce55de133ca592b638db758c9e457370.xml or http://tinyurl.com/3xglcqb Roy is the author, his own words: The fact that several people said they would attempt a stable push and then gave up (I was one - lol) says quite a bit really. That Gentoo-dev thread was 3 or 4 months ago, and I haven't read all of it today. But based on my understanding, I would discourage anyone in stable from migrating to Openrc unless they need to, or unless they're deciding to run entirely ~arch packages on their system. From my understanding I would "wait and see", and migrate when the devs decide the time is right for a mass migration of stable users. Stroller.
