Re: [gentoo-user] sys-power/upower with systemd

[Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@igpm.rwth-aachen.de>]

On 06/24/2014 10:01:24 AM, Marc Joliet wrote:
> Am Mon, 23 Jun 2014 20:39:13 -0400
> schrieb gottlieb@nyu.edu:
> 
> > I think I had first misinterpreted the news msg, but want to be  
> sure I
> > do understand it correctly now.
> >
> > The message ends with
> >
> >   All non-systemd users are recommended to choose between:
> >   # emerge --oneshot --noreplace 'sys-power/upower-pm-utils'
> >   or
> >   # emerge --oneshot --noreplace '>=sys-power/upower-0.99.0'
> >   However, all systemd users are recommended to stay with  
> sys-power/upower.
> >
> > I first read "stay with sys-power/upower" to mean systemd users  
> should
> > NOT do any of the two options for non-systemd users and let portage  
> "do
> > its thing".  However, portage want to replace upower with
> > upower-pm-utils, which I am pretty sure is not intended for systemd
> > users.
> >
> > Is the proper reading of the news message, that the systemd users  
> should
> > use the second option available for non-systemd users?   
> Specifically am
> > I to execute
> >
> >     # emerge --oneshot --noreplace '>=sys-power/upower-0.99.0'
> >
> > ?
> 
> Um, personally, I think the message is extremely clear: non-systemd  
> users
> should choose between the first two options, and systemd users should  
> just
> stick with plain upower, regardless of version (although there is  
> only one
> ATM, the older one is masked now).
> 

Hi, please tell me - what is a systemd user?

I have systemd AND openrc installed here and I still don't use systemd  
as my
init system. Am I a systemd user?
I ask because I cannot installed some packages, some require  
upower-0.99.0
others fail with it.

Thanks,
Helmut