Re: Providing a path for systemd on gentoo - 'profiles', or 'eselect module'? - WAS Re: [gentoo-user] Debian just voted in systemd for default init system in jessie

[Tom Wijsman <TomWij@gentoo.org>]

On Sat, 22 Feb 2014 19:46:42 +0200
Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> wrote:

> eselect manages config options between different implementation of a
> thing. Usually by tweaking symlinks. Switching init OpenRC <-> SystemD
> involves resetting uSE flags and recompiling some fundamental stuff.
> That exercise is unlikely to ever go into eselect.

Well, running systemd now I can reboot into OpenRC; it just works.

> The devs on gentoo-dev already nuked the idea of a gentoo profile as
> such, it's not worth the effort and causes an explosion of profiles.

It's happening, `find /usr/portage/profiles/ -name '*systemd*'`; does
it have any consequences that are worth thinking through?

> Conceptually, it is rather similar to switching between nouveau and
> nvidia. That doesn't have eselect support[1] or profiles.

Well, running NVIDIA now I can reboot with a simple script[1] put
in /etc/local.d/nvidia.start (with execute permission); this works for
me on both OpenRC and systemd, I'd say it is easy to do. Perhaps it can
even be made more easy by rewriting the Xorg configuration to be device
aware and therefore not needing the steps shown in this script.

 [1]: https://gist.github.com/TomWij/a13abacfb74999c10957

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