On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 10:49:26 +0200 Nicolas Sebrecht wrote:
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.
I doubt it would get onto Hardened Gentoo. So in order to gain a slight speed increase in booting, which can be done in other ways (Alpine boots faster than any systemd enabled system). Please give me examples of any other valuable benefits. We are going to sacrifice, simplicity, amount of code to look for bugs and most importantly, ease of troubleshooting. One of the beauties of Unix is the error information. Aren't they all going to be mixed together on systemd. Imagine if all drivers loaded at once. Ughh Would many resort to Windows style trial and error more often. p.s. I'm sure many will disagree on this seperate point but whilst I like the pretty startup and colors of arch, I have been annoyed in the past whilst being used to OpenBSD that I have to look at many files for pacman and functions.sh etc.. If there's a bug I need to fix, I prefer not to have to dig around and prefer to know it's somewhere right in front of my eyeballs without thinking about what tab in my editor I'm on, the sames true to me of overuse of inline functions. Code location sporadity and use of binary files seems annoyingly on the increase (not Arches fault). OpenBSD has several files and recently a directory as part of init. They have tried to keep this to as few as possible in case the user wants to lock it down, it has other great benefits. This simplicity surely fits with Arch.