On Sunday, 8 March 2026 15:58:47 Greenwich Mean Time Nuno Silva wrote: > On 2026-03-08, [email protected] wrote: > > Greetings, > > > > I've finally managed to get a more-or-less working system put together, > > having been going round in circles, banging my head on convenient walls > > on the way, since before Christmas. > > > > I've had to abandon my favourite systemd-boot, having been unable to get > > it to work (it doesn't behave the way the handbook describes). Instead, > > I've had to fall back on the dreaded grub. > > > > The point of this gripe, though, is that I cannot run an 'emerge -e > > @world' > > any more, because systemd insists on being included. Well, being masked > > stops it, but being explicitly excluded on the command line does not. > > > > Has anyone here a reliable method of ensuring that systemd stays out of > > the > > way? > > If it's installed, use emerge -pvc systemd to see what's keeping it in > the dependence graph. > > If it's not installed, add -tv to the emerge -e options (and pipe it > through a pager, or do --pretend and write to a file to look at after > emerge completes the output) to get some indication of at least one of > the packages that is pulling it.
I didn't get a tree, just the usual block of packages that were supposed to require systemd. This was the block: !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "sys-apps/systemd:0/2=" have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: - sys-apps/systemd-9999::gentoo (masked by: package.mask, missing keyword) - sys-apps/systemd-259.2::gentoo (masked by: package.mask, ~amd64 keyword) - sys-apps/systemd-259.1::gentoo (masked by: package.mask, ~amd64 keyword) - sys-apps/systemd-259::gentoo (masked by: package.mask, ~amd64 keyword) - sys-apps/systemd-258.3::gentoo (masked by: package.mask) (dependency required by "sys-fs/lvm2-2.03.22-r7::gentoo" [binary]) (dependency required by "sys-fs/cryptsetup-2.8.3-r1::gentoo" [binary]) (dependency required by "sys-libs/libblockdev-3.4.0::gentoo" [binary]) (dependency required by "sys-fs/udisks-2.11.0-r1::gentoo" [binary]) (dependency required by "kde-frameworks/solid-6.22.0::gentoo" [binary]) (dependency required by "kde-frameworks/kio-6.22.1::gentoo" [binary]) (dependency required by "kde-frameworks/kcmutils-6.22.0::gentoo" [binary]) (dependency required by "kde-plasma/keditfiletype-6.5.5::gentoo" [binary]) So I tried 'emerge -1av xxx', where xxx was each of those eight. Lvm2 wanted USE=-systemd, and the others didn't have such a USE flag. This is the sort of thing I meant when I said I'd been going round in circles. -- Regards, Peter.
