Re: [gentoo-dev] Making systemd more accessible to "normal" users

[William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org>]

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On Fri, May 03, 2013 at 08:27:36AM +1200, Kent Fredric wrote:
> On 3 May 2013 07:01, Fabio Erculiani <lxnay@gentoo.org> wrote:
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> >
> >
> > If it's that simple, why on earth do we have all the eselect modules we
> > have!?
> >
> >
> Hm, upon reading that list and seeing what they do, it raises another
> argument in favour of eselect:
> 
> If there needs to be more things changed prior to reboot than simply
> changing which init is invoked, having an eselect module gives a good place
> to put relevant related changes to make it work.

There are no other changes in this case though; that's the point of this
discussion. You just emerge systemd and switch init= to the appropriate
path in your boot loader configuration, , or better yet, add a separate
entry to your boot loader configuration that boots you up with systemd
so that you can recover if things do not work.

If you use this symlink approach to actually switch your init to point
to systemd, then you boot and things don't work, you are hosed.

William


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