On Tue, 16 Feb 2016 23:00:27 -0500 Richard Yao <r...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On 02/08/2016 10:09 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 7:58 PM, Anthony G. Basile > <bluen...@gentoo.org> wrote: > >> > >> what does in-house tool mean? i'm a gentoo developer but i also > >> work on an upstream project (eudev) that 14 distros use. > >> > >> some of the criticism given here are my concerns as well and i've > >> spoken with the various distros --- slack, parted magic, puppy. > >> they get what's going on and they still see eudev is the best way > >> forward for now. it may not be in the future, but neither will a > >> udev extracted from a compiled full systemd codebase. > > > > How many of those 14 distros have more than 14 users? > > > > Look, I get it, some people don't like systemd. That's fine. > > However, you have to realize at this point that a non-systemd > > configuration is anything but mainstream. There will always be a > > "poppyseed linux" whose purpose in life seems to be to preserve > > linux without sysfs or some other obscure practice. I just think > > that Gentoo should offer the choice to do those things, but have a > > more mainstream set of defaults. > > The new mainstream is docker. Docker recently switched to Alpine > Linux, which uses OpenRC+eudev: > > https://www.brianchristner.io/docker-is-moving-to-alpine-linux/ > > That dwarfs whatever marketshare systemd has in the same way that > Android+iOS dwarfed whatever marketshare Windows has. > > If userbase is what matters to you, then OpenRC+eudev won. It is the > logical choice for those concerned about userbase because that is what > the Linux ecosystem will be using going forward. > > I do not think userbase should be the sole means by which we make > decisions, but those that think otherwise should now join the > eudev+OpenRC camp. It has the bigger userbase share going forward. > > To put it another way, the war is over. Welcome abroad. :) I don't know docker well enough, but an lxc container definitely doesn't use udev inside the container.
