Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Please get me straight about sysvinit vs. systemd, udev vs eudev vs mdev, virtuals and other things...

[Mark Knecht]

On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 9:58 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés <caneko@×××××.com> wrote:
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> Come to the dark side. We have cookies.
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> Regards.
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> Canek Peláez Valdés
> Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación
> Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
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I like cookies. Cookies sounds good. You're not a bad man with candy are you?

OK, I updated my SSD backup install this weekend so it's totally
up-to-date. I'm curious enough and have good backups so I might be
willing to take a bite and see if it's sweet or poison. ;-)

QUESTION: I always use the plain Gentoo KDE profile as I run KDE.
Looks like I possibly would select the KDE/systemd profile, do the
work and then go through a learning process about how to get the right
services turned on?

If I understand this all then systemd, in it's current state, is going
to require removing udev as a stand-along package, will remove
sysvinit as systemd provides /sbin/init, and will also replace OpenRC
with it's own code for starting and stopping services? It's a big
change but it's one of the reasons why I built the backup install on
the SSD. None of this really touches my spinning rust install I use
daily.

Also, WRT to an earlier comment about udev being 'merged recently' I
found Kay Sievers note on this and that was somewhere in 2012. I agree
with Canek here that being that it's 18 month later and I didn't know
this and it's had no real effect on my machines it seems an
overreaction to get too worried about that. Yeah, in the future they
could possibly make it harder to use but eudev will know that's coming
and fork again I'd think, assuming anyone cares at that point.

Cheers,
Mark

- Mark