[arch-general] RFC: OpenRC as init system for Arch

[Nicholas MIller]

On Apr 25, 2012 12:57 PM, "Leonid Isaev" <lisaev at umail.iu.edu> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 25 Apr 2012 22:03:19 +0800
> Patrick Lauer <patrick at gentoo.org> wrote:
>
> > Greetings,
> >
> > in the last months there have been many discussions about init systems,
> > especially systemd. The current state seems to make no one really happy
> > - the current Arch Linux init system is a bit minimal and gets the job
done,
> > but it's not superawesome. There's things like init script dependencies
that
> > would be nice to have, but then it's about the smallest of all init
systems
> > around.
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > Patrick Lauer
> >
> > Gentoo Developer, OpenRC co-maintainer
> >
> >
>
> Thanks for your explanation. However, I sense a confusion regarding an
init
> system and a boot process. AFAIU openrc still uses /sbin/init -- the
> daemons/services are handled through a set of (ba)sh scripts. From what
> I learn from systemd documentation, all services are handled by one
daemon --
> dependencies, tracking, etc. are a natural bonus, so to say. Although I
also
> dislike the idea of systemd-{journald,logind,...}, as long as those
things are
> implemented via modules, I don't think they are "bloat". So IMO the only
> negative thing in arch's adoption of systemd is that rc.conf will have to
go
> away :)
>
rc.conf is one big reason I use arch instead of gentoo...

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