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This is true, OpenRC depends on sysvinit to run PID 1, but given the comparison to systemd we have to ignore the (unixy) distinction between OpenRC and sysvinit since systemd has eaten everything >_<.


> Gentoo still uses sysvinit by default

> OpenRC is default

> we have to ignore the (unixy) distinction between OpenRC and sysvinit

Nice try :)




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