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Autore: zap
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Oggetto: Re: [DNG] How long should I expect to wait for openrc to be ready in devuan ascii


On 07/01/2017 04:20 AM, Alessandro Selli wrote:
> On Sat, 1 Jul 2017 at 00:24:59 +0200
> Didier Kryn <kryn@???> wrote:
>
>> Le 30/06/2017 à 23:30, Vincent Bentley a écrit :
>>> Along time ago, well designed and well behaved software could be
>>> recognised by the number of years passed without changes. I worked at
>>> one place that was proud of release version birthdays.  
>>      Agreed. That's why I'm always bothered with the fast release pace 
>> of some essential pieces of software, with the fastest being the GCC and 
>> the Linux kernel.
>   Well, this is understandable: both the compiler and the kernel must keep
> up with the frantic rollout of new hardware from many vendors.  You don't
> have to upgrade if you don't need support for the laters pieces of silicon
> the industry has churned out the past month.  What matters is that older
> releases are still maintained and that they work, of course.  From time to
> time support for a new protocol/filesystem is merged, too.  


> This is not the
> case of init systems, as they are not supposed to be sensitive to the
> particular hardware/filesystem they are running on. I wonder why zap feels
> the need of a "regularly updated" init, are there issues in the current
> Devuan init that he feels are not being adequately addressed?
>

I was not aware of the lack of sensitivity for init systems.

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