Hi,

On Thu, 6 Feb 2014 11:49:41 -0700 Joseph wrote:
> I have in make.conf "USE: ... -systemd"
> But gnome-base/gnome-settings-daemon wants to pull in systemd-208
> so I need to emerge sys-apps/systemd-208-r2 and I have installed "udev" which conflicts with systemd.
> 
> Do I need to unmerge udev and emerge "systemd".  I'm not planning on switching to systemd after recent experience.  So I was planning on avoiding it but I don't know 
> if I can.

You can add openrc-force US flag to your make.conf. This way you will
drop systemd dependency, though you may loose some run-time
functionality of gnome.

Other alternative is to add sys-apps/systemd to package.provided,
though the effect will be the same as above.

And you may switch to some other DE/WM of course.

Best regards,
Andrew Savchenko