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List:       gentoo-user
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-user] Re: systemd - are we forced to switch?
From:       covici () ccs ! covici ! com
Date:       2013-07-24 17:28:12
Message-ID: 15652.1374686892 () ccs ! covici ! com
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Canek Peláez Valdés <caneko@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 2:04 AM, András Csányi <sayusi.ando@sayusi.hu> wrote:
> > On 23 July 2013 08:54, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@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.


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