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From: "Canek Peláez Valdés" <caneko@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: systemd - are we forced to switch?
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2013 18:11:08
Message-Id: CADPrc83r2ChmO=ZvfJzRGwTR0mN3thZpTUYRL=ANp3Ci8exudg@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: systemd - are we forced to switch? by "András Csányi"
1 On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 2:04 AM, András Csányi <sayusi.ando@××××××.hu> wrote:
2 > On 23 July 2013 08:54, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.com> wrote:
3 >> On 23/07/13 08:43, Samuli Suominen wrote:
4 >>>
5 >>> On 23/07/13 00:46, Mark David Dumlao wrote:
6 >>>>
7 >>>> This would be a lot less of an issue if someone just wrote a logind
8 >>>> ebuild (wink wink) that provides consolekit like it was originally
9 >>>> intended.
10 >>>
11 >>>
12 >>> not possible, logind since systemd >= 205 requires systemd and won't
13 >>> work on openrc, upstart, and such
14 >>> as in, the idea of using logind outside of systemd is a dead end
15 >>>
16 >>> so keeping ConsoleKit in portage for long as it works for long as we
17 >>> need openrc for Linux based systems
18 >>> and when it no longer works, the contingency plan is to ship vendor
19 >>> based polkit files that possibly either restore 'plugdev' group or
20 >>> provide similar groups to ArchLinux like 'network', 'storage', 'power'
21 >>> to split up the old 'plugdev'
22 >>
23 >>
24 >> Wouldn't it be better to switch to systemd instead?
25 >
26 > Is there a migration guide? According to google there is no any. (or I
27 > haven't spend enough time to search)
28
29 You have the wiki:
30
31 https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Systemd
32
33 I believe it covers the most important aspects of the migration. Also,
34 it is so much easier now; we even have a stable version on systemd in
35 the tree.
36
37 Regards.
38 --
39 Canek Peláez Valdés
40 Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación
41 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

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