On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 11:18 AM, Drake Donahue <donahu...@comcast.net> wrote: > On Mon, 2014-03-03 at 10:38 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > >> If I understand this all then systemd, in it's current state, is going >> to require removing udev as a stand-along package, will remove >> sysvinit as systemd provides /sbin/init, and will also replace OpenRC >> with it's own code for starting and stopping services? It's a big >> change but it's one of the reasons why I built the backup install on >> the SSD. None of this really touches my spinning rust install I use >> daily. >> > Two systems - one upgraded to systemd, one new install with systemd: > Two kernels for each system: - "CONFIG_GENTOO_LINUX_INIT_SYSTEMD=y" is > enabled on one kernel for each system and " > #CONFIG_GENTOO_LINUX_INIT_SYSTEMD is not set" disabled on one kernel for > each system > Both kernels boot for each system. > Systemd initializes gentoo for the systemd enabled kernels > Openrc initializes gentoo for the systemd disabled kernels > BTW Gnome 3.8 runs on both systemd initialized and openrc initialized > systems. > > http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Systemd > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Systemd/upgrade > http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GNOME/3.8-upgrade-guide > >
Again, not enough time to study the docs yet, and I personally think it was very clear from the title that this whole conversation is very exploratory. Like Duncan, when I start to get the bug to look at something down the road I know I'm gonna do it if for no other reason than just to try it out. All of that in mind the above comments about two kernels coupled with Canek & Rich's comments about keeping parallel settings (I'll have to go think about that) makes a lot of sense and is likely the way I'll go. If nothing else, I could always just do a systemd-based install from scratch if I botch all of this somehow but I doubt that will happen. Doing it in a VM is a possibility also. I've wanted to study LVM a bit so maybe that's the way to try this out. Thanks to all that have answered. I'll read anything else that comes along but I've gotten lots of great thoughts and hints. Cheers to all. - Mark
