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On Fri, Sep 06 2013, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: |
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> On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 1:27 PM, <gottlieb@×××.edu> wrote: |
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>> Canek, Thanks for this information. But what about my original |
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>> question, namely |
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>> Can I remove my masks and let gnome-3.8 replace 3.6 (to the |
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>> extent portage let's it) while I am running openrc and do |
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>> *not* have systemd installed? |
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> No, you can't: systemd is now a requirement for GNOME 3; gdm-3.8.4 |
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> requires systemd unconditionally. If you try to install GNOME 3.8, it |
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> will install gdm 3.8.4, which will bring systemd. You cannot install |
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> gdm without systemd; therefore, you cannot install gnome-base/gnome |
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> without systemd. |
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> You could *try* to update the pieces of GNOME to 3.8 that doesn't |
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> require systemd, but I don't think that will end happily. |
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> Regards. |
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That is what I suspected. I will keep the gnome-3.8 packages masked |
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while I build up an old system and then try to convert it to systemd. |
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When the conversion succeeds, I will try to convert my real system. |
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thanks again for your help, |
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allan |
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