On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 8:19 PM, walt <w41...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 09/05/2013 05:43 PM, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: >> [I will be going to systemd since it is aparently required for >> gnome-3.8. I first want to try systemd on a test system so am building >> that one up.] >> >> On my main system (currently running openrc) I have masked all of >> gnome-3.8. I wonder if this was an error and I can remove the >> mask. Is it the case that >> >> 1. Running openrc instead of systemd means you must mask gnome-3.8 >> >> or >> >> 2. It is ok to emerge gnome-3.8 without a mask but some pieces will >> stay at 3.6? >> >> In other words can I eliminate my file >> /etc/portage/package.mask/gnome-3.8 >> with all the 3.8 builds? > > Well, Canek is the systemd guru in this group, but I have been able > to boot my ~amd64 test machine successfully using *either* openrc or > systemd. > > This was a pleasant surprise to me because Canek posted not long ago > that openrc is now incompatible with systemd.
I'm pretty sure I never said such thing. Both sys-apps/systemd and sys-apps/openrc satisfy virtual/service-manager, so if you installed systemd, OpenRC was depcleaned some days ago, but since bug 373219[1] hasn't been closed, they added OpenRC into the @system set, so now it's not even depcleaned. You can put -*sys-apps/openrc in /etc/portage/profile/package to solve that. No incompatibility, and I never said that. > Canek, please correct me if I'm wrong because I'm a bit lost in the > details of the gnome3/systemd update at the moment. I believe you can install OpenRC and systemd in parallel without problems. GNOME 3 will pull systemd when installed, but that doesn't mean you will need to uninstall OpenRC. However, several GNOME packages (including gdm, if I'm not mistaken) will fail if not running with systemd as PID=1. I don't know how well it works OpenRC parallel installed with systemd, I haven't used it in years. Regards. [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=373219 -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
