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.
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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@gentoo.org ) 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