Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Systemd upower

[Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>]

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On Thursday 05 Jun 2014 12:26:09 Samuli Suominen wrote:
> On 05/06/14 13:47, Tom Wijsman wrote:
> > On Thu, 5 Jun 2014 06:23:38 +0100
> > 
> > Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Are you saying that as things stand it is a matter of time before a
> >> gentoo user will have to switch from openrc to systemd, if they
> >> want/need to continue using sleep and hibernate?
> > 
> > For them to have support for sleep and hibernate, someone needs to
> > develop / maintain it in order to adapt to kernel API changes; as long
> > as the only one doing this is systemd, you'll work towards only it
> > being supported there in the future.
> 
> Correct, and to name an example, pm-utils is still using the old
> wireless stack and
> 'wireless-utils' instead of 'iw'
> As in, pm-utils is using kernel options that are marked as DEPRECATED in
> the menuconfig, and DEPRECATED means they are going away at some point So
> it won't be long the package is broken for every machine that has wireless
> card
> I'm sure there are multiple other examples available, but this one pops
> up to
> mind immediately

Fair enough, I've keyworded sys-power/upower-0.99.0 for now on one machine and 
it seems to work fine, without imposing systemd at the moment.  :-)

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Regards,
Mick

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