Hi, The 25/04/12, Patrick Lauer wrote: > As an alternative to the One Process For Everything I'd like to ask you to evalute OpenRC as an init system for Arch Linux. <...> > While Gentoo is by far the largest user it's definitely not the only one > - there are the direct derivatives (Sabayon, pentoo, funtoo, > sysrescuecd, tinhat, ...) and some "foreign" users (Alpine, a debian > derivative, uses OpenRC) Alpine is highly dedicated to small systems with few physical resources which makes the reference not much relevant. > Should you decide to switch (or just evaluate if switching is possible / > makes sense) you'll get full support from us in migrating init scripts > and figuring out all the nontrivial changes. Just visit us on IRC ( > #openrc on irc.freenode.net), send us a mail ( openrc@xxxxxxxxxx ) or > meet us for a beer or two. > > Thanks for your consideration, > > Patrick Lauer > > Gentoo Developer, OpenRC co-maintainer I wouldn't expect anything else from a OpenRC maintainer to support his tool to be used on other platforms. :-) But to be fair, you should say that the future of OpenRC is NOT certain in Gentoo at least, and as a consequence in all of the forked projects. Please all, take a look at: - http://marc.info/?l=gentoo-dev&m=130929913506375&w=4 - https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=373219 - http://marc.info/?l=gentoo-dev&m=132538362810246&w=4 Gentoo might make systemd the default init system in the future. Nobody can say if and when this could heppen but this is clearly possible for OpenRC to become a Gentoo init system _alternative_. This is why I think that switching to OpenRC *now* would be wrong. -- Nicolas Sebrecht
