Re: [gentoo-user] Systemd as drop-in replacement for udev?

["Róbert Čerňanský" <openhs@tightmail.com>]

On Thu, 5 Dec 2013 15:18:54 -0600
Canek Peláez Valdés <caneko@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 2:36 PM, Róbert Čerňanský
> <openhs@tightmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I am currently updating my system and Portage wants to replace udev
> > (204) with systemd (208).  My question is (hopefully) simple:
> >
> > Can I use systemd as drop-in replacement for udev?  In other words,
> > can I pretend that systemd is udev and continue using OpenRC as
> > with udev itself?  I would then apply just udev 204 to 208 update
> > instructions (http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Udev/upgrade).
> >
> > I am using WindowMaker and systemd was pulled in by
> > gnome-settings-daemon which in turn was pulled in by gdm.  I would
> > like to stick with gdm.
> 
> The GNOME stuff that requires systemd will not work under OpenRC from
> 3.10 on, you could get strange fails with gdm and
> gnome-settings-daemon. If it's gdm-3.8, then I think you can use
> systemd as udev replacement together with OpenRC, and I believe some
> people did it successfully.

Thanks.  I have enabled openrc-force use flag found this in
gnome-settings-daemon emerge log, which confirms what you have said:

"gnome-settings-daemon needs Systemd to be *running* for working
properly. Please follow the this guide to migrate:
http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Systemd
You are enabling 'openrc-force' USE flag to skip systemd requirement,
this can lead to unexpected problems and is not supported neither by
upstream neither by Gnome Gentoo maintainers. If you suffer any problem,
you will need to disable this USE flag system wide and retest before
opening any bug report."

So the it is clear to me now.

I will try openrc-force as temporal solution until I'll find a new
display manager and give heart breaking good by to GDM.

Regards,
Robert


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