Re: [dev] Re: Linux distros that don't suck too too much

From: S. Gilles <sgilles_AT_math.umd.edu>
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2017 04:15:44 -0500

On 2017-02-01T08:35:32+0000, Cág wrote:
> Marc Collin wrote:
>
> > Gentoo's init system (OpenRC) could soon
> > move from Makefiles to Meson and add
> > python3 and ninja to dependencies because
> > of it.
> > https://github.com/OpenRC/openrc/issues/116
>
> Isn't Portage written in Python? Gentoo uses
> glibc, coreutils, the package manager is in Python
> and now there will be Python in the init system.
> That's too much for a suckless distribution,
> in my humble opinion.

For what it's worth, 2/3 of my Gentoo machines use musl, and 2/3 use s6
as the init system. Parts of Portage do have a hard dependency on bash,
though, which really sucks.

-- 
S. Gilles
Received on Wed Feb 01 2017 - 10:15:44 CET

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