On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 8:35 PM, Paul B. Henson <hen...@acm.org> wrote: > > > From: Rich Freeman > > Sent: Friday, January 16, 2015 4:41 PM > > > > I suspect that eventually we'll get to a point where the stage3s don't > > contain init, just as they don't contain a kernel. Besides, who wants > > all those files clogging up their drives when all they want is a > > chroot? :) > > I've got no issue with that, Gentoo is all about choice :). What is going to make me really unhappy is if/when the assimilation campaign by systemd makes supporting init system options difficult or impossible 8-/.
>From [1]: 'After nearly 12 years working on Gentoo and hearing blathering about how “Gentoo is about choice” and “Gentoo is a metadistribution,” I’ve come to a conclusion to where we need to go if we want to remain viable as a Linux distribution.' 'If we want to have any relevance, we need to have focus. Everything for everybody is a guarantee that you’ll be nothing for nobody.' This idea (the one that Gentoo is, or should be, about "choice") is one which not all users (like myself), nor developers (like, apparently, dberkholz) agree on. In particular, and for what it matters, I've always said that Gentoo (and Linux) is about choice, as long as there is someone willing and able to provide the choice. Just my 0.02 cents. Regards. [1] http://dberkholz.com/2015/01/13/gentoo-needs-focus-to-stay-relevant/ -- Canek Peláez Valdés Profesor de asignatura, Facultad de Ciencias Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
