Re: Providing a path for systemd on gentoo - 'profiles', or 'eselect module'? - WAS Re: [gentoo-user] Debian just voted in systemd for default init system in jessie

[Tom Wijsman]

On Thu, 20 Mar 2014 22:22:22 +0200
Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote:

> On 20/03/2014 20:57, Tom Wijsman wrote:
>
> > Well, running systemd now I can reboot into OpenRC; it just works.
>
> How is this done?

Here, two GRUB entries; alternatively, eselect init to switch symlinks.

> > It's happening, `find /usr/portage/profiles/ -name '*systemd*'`;
> > does it have any consequences that are worth thinking through?
>
> As it stands now exactly, none. I only checked one profile:

Good, as you describe after this (cut out), I get the impression that
the opposite is the case and there are not enough; a solution to that
exists elwhere, in Funtoo, check out their Flavors and Mix-ins:

http://www.funtoo.org/Flavors_and_Mix-ins

Would be nice to have this on Gentoo.

> > Well, running NVIDIA now I can reboot with a simple script[1] put
> > in /etc/local.d/nvidia.start (with execute permission); this works
> > for me on both OpenRC and systemd, I'd say it is easy to do.
> > Perhaps it can even be made more easy by rewriting the Xorg
> > configuration to be device aware and therefore not needing the
> > steps shown in this script.
> >
> >  [1]: https://gist.github.com/TomWij/a13abacfb74999c10957
>
> Yeah, you'd really need to make it work with one unchanging xorg.conf.

Haven't tried; but given it works, it's something that I delay doing.

> And that first line of code - relying on "-nvidia" being in
> /proc/cmdline - wtf is that? :-)

Magic. :D
 
> Such, um, butcher hacks work OK on your machine but sure ain't
>
> production ready

Maybe you mean packaging ready; as for production on your own servers
and desktops, I think it is ready enough. But YMMV.

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Tom Wijsman (TomWij)
Gentoo Developer

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