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On Sat, Feb 10, 2018 at 7:16 PM, allan gottlieb <gottlieb@×××.edu> wrote: |
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> I have a question on this news item. |
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> I use systemd (gnome3) on a gentoo stable system. |
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> eix reports that sys-apps/systemd-236-r5 is installed |
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> But |
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> euse -I sysv-utils |
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> reports |
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> no matching entries found |
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> Is something wrong? |
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> I do *not* have |
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> sys-apps/sysvinit, sys-apps/openrc, or net-misc/netifrc |
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> in my world file. |
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> However, the last two are installed. |
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Interesting. Does /sbin/reboot exist? What does "qfile /sbin/reboot" return? |
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The only thing that is changing is a default - that flag was defaulted |
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off before, and is defaulted on now. So, an emerge --changed-use -u |
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world should reinstall systemd with this flag enabled, assuming you |
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didn't manually disable it. |
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In any case, you can probably actually survive without poweroff, |
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reboot, etc, assuming you shutdown using systemctl. Obviously some |
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legacy scripts/programs/etc that are supposed to shut down your system |
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might balk at the missing symlinks. All the use flag does is install |
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compatibility symlinks to systemctl for these sysvinit programs and |
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their manpages. |
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Unless you have some package installed that explicitly depends on |
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sysvinit or openrc you should be fine. Do you actually get any |
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blockers/etc? |
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Ultimately it comes down to whether you care about the compatibility |
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symlinks. It probably isn't a bad idea to have them though. Maybe |
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some day you'll install a UPS and its shutdown scripts will just call |
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shutdown/poweroff/etc and not work. Software that shuts down using |
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either systemctl or dbus would be fine. |
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Rich |
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