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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] sys-power/upower with systemd
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 11:06:32
Message-Id: 53A95B6E.9010304@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] sys-power/upower with systemd by Helmut Jarausch
1 On 24/06/2014 10:08, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
2 > On 06/24/2014 10:01:24 AM, Marc Joliet wrote:
3 >> Am Mon, 23 Jun 2014 20:39:13 -0400
4 >> schrieb gottlieb@×××.edu:
5 >>
6 >> > I think I had first misinterpreted the news msg, but want to be sure I
7 >> > do understand it correctly now.
8 >> >
9 >> > The message ends with
10 >> >
11 >> > All non-systemd users are recommended to choose between:
12 >> > # emerge --oneshot --noreplace 'sys-power/upower-pm-utils'
13 >> > or
14 >> > # emerge --oneshot --noreplace '>=sys-power/upower-0.99.0'
15 >> > However, all systemd users are recommended to stay with
16 >> sys-power/upower.
17 >> >
18 >> > I first read "stay with sys-power/upower" to mean systemd users should
19 >> > NOT do any of the two options for non-systemd users and let portage "do
20 >> > its thing". However, portage want to replace upower with
21 >> > upower-pm-utils, which I am pretty sure is not intended for systemd
22 >> > users.
23 >> >
24 >> > Is the proper reading of the news message, that the systemd users
25 >> should
26 >> > use the second option available for non-systemd users? Specifically am
27 >> > I to execute
28 >> >
29 >> > # emerge --oneshot --noreplace '>=sys-power/upower-0.99.0'
30 >> >
31 >> > ?
32 >>
33 >> Um, personally, I think the message is extremely clear: non-systemd users
34 >> should choose between the first two options, and systemd users should
35 >> just
36 >> stick with plain upower, regardless of version (although there is only
37 >> one
38 >> ATM, the older one is masked now).
39 >>
40 >
41 > Hi, please tell me - what is a systemd user?
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46 A systemd user is someone who has systemd installed and *is using it*
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48 How can that be unclear?
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54 >
55 > I have systemd AND openrc installed here and I still don't use systemd
56 > as my
57 > init system. Am I a systemd user?
58 > I ask because I cannot installed some packages, some require upower-0.99.0
59 > others fail with it.
60 >
61 > Thanks,
62 > Helmut
63 >
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69 --
70 Alan McKinnon
71 alan.mckinnon@×××××.com