Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-systemd-only deprecation

[Tanstaafl]

Top-posting because my question is about something in the linked threads...

In one comment was said the following:

>> Can I ask the systemd people to design a working solution for opting out?  I
>> can't support this initiative without such a solution and I would be happy
>> to work with the systemd people to reach it, ie I'll test.
>
> This already went before the Council, and the decision was that
> INSTALL_MASK IS the working solution for opting out.  If somebody
> wants to come up with a better one and propose it they're of course
> welcome to, but in the meantime, INSTALL_MASK is the official
> solution.

Where is this 'INSTALL_MASK' option for opting out of systemd completely 
documented? Googling only finds references to this discussion?

Thanks,

Charles

On 2013-07-30 6:40 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés <caneko@×××××.com> wrote:
> There is going to be resistance. Two months ago there was a huge
> thread in gentoo-dev, because a package maintaner complained that his
> co-maintainer added a systemd unit to the package:
>
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/85792
>
> In the end, the maintainer rage-quit:
>
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.project/2551
>
> However, this is the extreme behaviour: most developers (and rational
> people) agree to adding systemd unit files to all packages, and we
> have much better coverage now that some months ago.
>
> If users cooperate opening bugs adding systemd unit files (after
> testing them in their machines), the coverage is going to grow even
> faster.