Re: [gentoo-user] Why do systemd scripts get installed with USE="-systemd"?

[Walter Dnes]

On Sun, Nov 12, 2017 at 10:55:04AM +0000, Akater wrote
> It looks like systemd scripts often (always?) get installed, regardless
> of USE flag settings.
>
> Why would they? Is this a policy?
>
> E.g., in
>
> cat /usr/portage/net-p2p/transmission/transmission-2.92-r2.ebuild | grep systemd_
>         systemd_dounit daemon/transmission-daemon.service
>         systemd_install_serviced "${FILESDIR}"/transmission-daemon.service.conf
>
> why not
>
> if use systemd ; then
>    systemd_dounit daemon/transmission-daemon.service
>    systemd_install_serviced "${FILESDIR}"/transmission-daemon.service.conf
> fi
>
> instead?

  Add...

INSTALL_MASK="/lib/systemd/system /usr/lib/systemd/system"

...to /etc/portage/make.conf

  Hmmmm, I wonder if you could...

rm -rf /lib/systemd /usr/lib/systemd/

...and then create symlinks to /dev/null

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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
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