On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 9:04 PM, John Covici <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 28 Jul 2017 21:00:50 -0400, > Rich Freeman wrote: >> >> On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 8:52 PM, John Covici <[email protected]> wrote: >> > I have not done a world update in a few weeks and I like to check >> > things out first before doing this. I am seeing that the latest >> > update of dracut has the -systemd as a mandatory flag. So, since I >> > have to use systemd, does this mean I can no longer use dracut -- I >> > have found dracut very nice and would be sad to give it up. >> > >> > Any ideas on what is happening here? >> >> I'm not running 045 but it looks to me that systemd is just supported >> automatically if it is installed. The USE flag was removed, but >> support was not. > > OK, thanks a lot, I wish they would have news items for such things, > or at least a changelog which seems to be missing in that directory. >
I have no idea why you don't have a changelog - those are system-generated from the git logs and maintainers have nothing to do with them. The relevant commit message seems to be: commit 90bb5611b5aa9279ff3b0d4f5c25240bf4b0f9db Author: Mike Gilbert <[email protected]> Date: Sun Jul 2 19:06:08 2017 -0400 sys-kernel/dracut: bump to 045 - Clean up ebuild code in general - Remove unnecessary version setting - Simplify gentoo.conf config file - Depend on >=sys-apps/kmod-15 for libkmod - Stop removing systemd and other modules - Drop systemd USE flag - Depend on sys-apps/coreutils[xattr] (bug 613516) Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/615898 Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/613516 Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.6_p9, Repoman-2.3.2_p77 :100644 100644 6525882cc17... 04a511a44f1... M sys-kernel/dracut/Manifest :000000 100644 00000000000... 86fddcc57bb... A sys-kernel/dracut/dracut-045.ebuild -- Rich
