[gentoo-user] Re: banshee installation without systemd

[eroen]

On Sun, 23 Feb 2014 19:47:55 -0600, Canek Peláez Valdés
<caneko@×××××.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 7:31 PM, eroen <eroen@××××××××××××.eu> wrote:
> > On Sun, 23 Feb 2014 18:02:01 +0100, Fox <halfsocialfox@×××××.com>
> > wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >> after reading the thread about systemd somebody mentioned
> >> sys-fs/eudev. I decided used because I had systemd only to used
> >> udev and unmerge systemd.
> >>
> >> Now I can't use Banshee which I use as my music player because of
> >> the next dependency tree:
> >>
> >> banshee
> >>      <- gnome-base/gnome-settings-daemon
> >>          <- sys-apps/gentoo-systemd-integration
> >>              <- sys-apps/systemd
> >>
> >> and systemd can't be used because it conflicts with eudev.
> >>
> >> Is there anyway to avoid emerge systemd in this case?
> >>
> >> Thank you,
> >> Quim
> >>
> >
> > On a system running ~amd64 with eudev/openrc:
> >
> > eroen@falcon ~ $ emerge -pv media-sound/banshee
> > =gnome-base/gnome-settings-daemon-2.32.1-r2
> >
> [ snip emerge output ]
> >
> > For ease of upgrades, you might want to add
> >     >=gnome-base/gnome-settings-daemon-3
> > in /etc/portage/package.mask rather than specifying it with a
> > specific version on the command line.
>
> That solution is a dead end. GNOME 2 is being removed from the
> tree[1].
>
> Regards.
>
> [1] http://blogs.gentoo.org/eva/2014/02/16/the-future-of-gnome-2/

You probably mean "temporary". The expression "dead end" would imply it
makes future migration more difficult in some way.

One would hope (mostly for their image's sake) the gnome team does
not remove gnome-settings-daemon-2 until at least one of
cinnamon-settings-daemon and mate-settings-daemon are included in
gentoo proper.

-- 
eroen