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From: "Canek Peláez Valdés" <caneko@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: banshee installation without systemd
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 02:25:18
Message-Id: CADPrc81Me6iF5t8i+Q6O2qf2oCn7HkcEAJk64YRzpvASdaBFEA@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: banshee installation without systemd by eroen
1 On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 8:11 PM, eroen <eroen@××××××××××××.eu> wrote:
2 > On Sun, 23 Feb 2014 19:47:55 -0600, Canek Peláez Valdés
3 > <caneko@×××××.com> wrote:
4 >> On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 7:31 PM, eroen <eroen@××××××××××××.eu> wrote:
5 >> > On Sun, 23 Feb 2014 18:02:01 +0100, Fox <halfsocialfox@×××××.com>
6 >> > wrote:
7 >> >> Hello,
8 >> >> after reading the thread about systemd somebody mentioned
9 >> >> sys-fs/eudev. I decided used because I had systemd only to used
10 >> >> udev and unmerge systemd.
11 >> >>
12 >> >> Now I can't use Banshee which I use as my music player because of
13 >> >> the next dependency tree:
14 >> >>
15 >> >> banshee
16 >> >> <- gnome-base/gnome-settings-daemon
17 >> >> <- sys-apps/gentoo-systemd-integration
18 >> >> <- sys-apps/systemd
19 >> >>
20 >> >> and systemd can't be used because it conflicts with eudev.
21 >> >>
22 >> >> Is there anyway to avoid emerge systemd in this case?
23 >> >>
24 >> >> Thank you,
25 >> >> Quim
26 >> >>
27 >> >
28 >> > On a system running ~amd64 with eudev/openrc:
29 >> >
30 >> > eroen@falcon ~ $ emerge -pv media-sound/banshee
31 >> > =gnome-base/gnome-settings-daemon-2.32.1-r2
32 >> >
33 >> [ snip emerge output ]
34 >> >
35 >> > For ease of upgrades, you might want to add
36 >> > >=gnome-base/gnome-settings-daemon-3
37 >> > in /etc/portage/package.mask rather than specifying it with a
38 >> > specific version on the command line.
39 >>
40 >> That solution is a dead end. GNOME 2 is being removed from the
41 >> tree[1].
42 >>
43 >> Regards.
44 >>
45 >> [1] http://blogs.gentoo.org/eva/2014/02/16/the-future-of-gnome-2/
46 >
47 > You probably mean "temporary". The expression "dead end" would imply it
48 > makes future migration more difficult in some way.
49
50 Call it temporary if you want to. The point is that
51 gnome-settings-daemon 2.x has been unmaintained for years now.
52
53 > One would hope (mostly for their image's sake) the gnome team does
54 > not remove gnome-settings-daemon-2 until at least one of
55 > cinnamon-settings-daemon and mate-settings-daemon are included in
56 > gentoo proper.
57
58 Nobody cares about any team "image", I suppose. They are all
59 volunteers. If you want cinnamon-sd or mate-sd to get into the tree,
60 help out. Don't assume someone is going to do it for you.
61
62 Regards.
63 --
64 Canek Peláez Valdés
65 Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación
66 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México