Canek Peláez Valdés <can...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 12:28 PM, <cov...@ccs.covici.com> wrote:
> > Canek Peláez Valdés <can...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 2:04 AM, András Csányi <sayusi.a...@sayusi.hu>
> >> wrote:
> >> > On 23 July 2013 08:54, Nikos Chantziaras <rea...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >> On 23/07/13 08:43, Samuli Suominen wrote:
> >> >>>
> >> >>> On 23/07/13 00:46, Mark David Dumlao wrote:
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> This would be a lot less of an issue if someone just wrote a logind
> >> >>>> ebuild (wink wink) that provides consolekit like it was originally
> >> >>>> intended.
> >> >>>
> >> >>>
> >> >>> not possible, logind since systemd >= 205 requires systemd and won't
> >> >>> work on openrc, upstart, and such
> >> >>> as in, the idea of using logind outside of systemd is a dead end
> >> >>>
> >> >>> so keeping ConsoleKit in portage for long as it works for long as we
> >> >>> need openrc for Linux based systems
> >> >>> and when it no longer works, the contingency plan is to ship vendor
> >> >>> based polkit files that possibly either restore 'plugdev' group or
> >> >>> provide similar groups to ArchLinux like 'network', 'storage', 'power'
> >> >>> to split up the old 'plugdev'
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> Wouldn't it be better to switch to systemd instead?
> >> >
> >> > Is there a migration guide? According to google there is no any. (or I
> >> > haven't spend enough time to search)
> >>
> >> You have the wiki:
> >>
> >> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Systemd
> >>
> >> I believe it covers the most important aspects of the migration. Also,
> >> it is so much easier now; we even have a stable version on systemd in
> >> the tree.
> >
> > Couldn't emerge systemd its blocked by udev -- did a google search, but
> > found some very confusing posts to do with static-libs.
>
> systemd *is* udev; they are the same package. Uninstall the Gentoo
> packaging of udev (which basically strips systemd), install systemd,
> and it includes the official udev.
ahhh! I see and it looks like I still don't have to use it as my init
till I figure all of it out, so that will at least be a good thing.
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