On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 04:08:17PM +0200, Pacho Ramos wrote: > El mié, 15-05-2013 a las 15:41 +0200, Fabio Erculiani escribió: > > Are we realizing that in order to keep systemd out of our way, we're > > currently writing and maintaining drop-in replacements for the > > features that systemd is already providing in an actively maintained > > state? openrc-settingsd was the first thing that we as Gentoo > > developers (Pacho?) had to write in order to merge GNOME 3.6 into our > > tree. > > Tetromino is the expert in openrc-settingsd I think, I don't know much > about it :S I don't either, but I do think this is why it was written -- to allow using gnome 3.6 without systemd.
> But, well, I think the easiest solution would be to move to systemd and > run the parts we need from it even still booting with openrc I would be willing to consider this option. Having systemd installed doesn't mean that you are running it, and there are parts of the systemd package (like udev) that do not require systemd to be running. I don't know if there are any down sides to this arrangement other than the extra disk space the systemd components would use. This idea is probably a topic for another thread though. William
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