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On Wed, Aug 07 2013, Samuli Suominen wrote: |
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> On 07/08/13 05:25, gottlieb@×××.edu wrote: |
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>> On Tue, Aug 06 2013, Samuli Suominen wrote: |
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>>> that's only because gnome 3.8 hasn't been stabilized yet. as in, there |
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>>> are no plans in keeping gnome 2.x available after gnome 3.8 |
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>>> stabilization. |
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>> Am I correct in believing that gnome-3.8 (whether in testing as now, or |
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>> stable later) requires init=systemd? I am converting an old ~amd64 |
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>> machine to systemd for practice so that I can convert my main laptop |
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>> (also ~amd64) to systemd. The purpose of the conversions is to run |
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>> gnome-3.8 and higher. I have other machines running stable. Will I |
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>> need to convert them to systemd when gnome-3.8 becomes stable and if so |
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>> will the systemd wiki be expanded. |
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> Yes, GNOME 3.8+ does require sys-apps/systemd installed and running as |
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> init= for full functionality[1] |
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> However if you don't care about full functionality[1] you can still |
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> run GNOME 3.8+ with OpenRC while sys-apps/systemd is installed |
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> (because sys-apps/systemd has it's own copy of udev that still works |
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> with OpenRC) |
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> [1] HW support, like (auto)mounting and suspend/hibernate |
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Thanks for the explanation. Since suspend/resume is important for me, I |
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will keep up the effort to go to systemd. |
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allan |