On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 2:36 PM, Róbert Čerňanský <ope...@tightmail.com> wrote: > Hello all, > > I am currently updating my system and Portage wants to replace udev > (204) with systemd (208). My question is (hopefully) simple: > > Can I use systemd as drop-in replacement for udev? In other words, can > I pretend that systemd is udev and continue using OpenRC as with udev > itself? I would then apply just udev 204 to 208 update instructions > (http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Udev/upgrade). > > I am using WindowMaker and systemd was pulled in by > gnome-settings-daemon which in turn was pulled in by gdm. I would like > to stick with gdm. > > Usually I feel pretty comfortable replacing one package with another if > Portage wants so (e.g. because they block each other) but in this case I > want to be extra careful. I did not find a clear answer to this. > Usually people either migrate fully to systemd (replacing openrc) or > stays with udev + openrc.
I think that's the usual way; either switch completely to systemd, or keep using OpenRC+udev (or OpenRC+eudev, or several other combinations). The GNOME stuff that requires systemd will not work under OpenRC from 3.10 on, you could get strange fails with gdm and gnome-settings-daemon. If it's gdm-3.8, then I think you can use systemd as udev replacement together with OpenRC, and I believe some people did it successfully. Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
