Re: [gentoo-user] [systemd vs consolekit] packagekit-base

[András Csányi]

On 25 July 2013 22:31, Canek Peláez Valdés <caneko@×××××.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 3:06 PM, András Csányi <sayusi.ando@××××××.hu> wrote:
>> Hi All,

[snip]

> Unity is in the tree? Where?

In the unity-gentoo overlay. At the moment the overlay packages are
clashing the already unmasked gnome-3.8. It requires a little job to
manage it.

> The ebuild for packagekit-base has a hard dependency on consolekit,
> without an option for systemd. This is because the last version of
> PackageKit in the tree is 0.7.4, which is more than a year older (was
> released in April 2012).
>
> If you use Unity, the DE by Canonical for Ubuntu, the last thing you
> want is systemd. Canonical/Ubuntu is pretty clear on the fact that
> they support Upstart, not systemd.

I did not know that. Based on that gnome wants systemd and unity uses
gnome stuff I thought that there is a strong relation between them.

> And lastly, why do you want/need PackageKit? It worked horribly with
> portage, last time I tried some years ago.

Gnome wants that and I do not know why. Maybe I did not pay enough
attention for the USE flag which pulls in it. It requires an action -
just being agile for a moment not having the first coffee today. :S

> If you use GNOME you need to use systemd. Unity is a completely
> different beast (although it uses the same technologies behind the
> curtains), and systemd would be blocked by some Unity stuff, if I
> understand correctly.

I switched back to consolekit to avoid the possible collisions. The
first thing I want is the Unity system working properly. After that
I'm going to ask the guys who manages the unity overlay about
consolekit/systemd stuff.

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