[gentoo-user] Re: a few blockers I can't figure out

[walt <w41ter@gmail.com>]

On Tue, 1 Sep 2015 01:51:51 +0200 (CEST)
Jeremi Piotrowski <jeremi.piotrowski@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 31 Aug 2015, covici@ccs.covici.com wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> 
> > Just to let you know, most of the python entries were mandated by
> > portage, certainly the systemd one.
> > emerge --info
> > Portage 2.2.20.1 (python 2.7.10-final-0,
> > default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop/gnome, gcc-4.9.3, glibc-2.21-r1,
> > 3.16.3-gentoo x86_64)  
> 
> I think this is your problem right here: you don't have the systemd
> profile selected. You're trying to splice together the use settings
> needed to get this to work when all of them are already gathered in
> the right profile. 
> 
> Remove most of the use settings you were forced to make because of
> systemd related issues, change your profile to
> 
>     default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop/gnome/systemd 
> 
> and emerge -uDUva @world. 
> 
> This should remove most (if not all) of the blockers caused by
> conflicting use flags you currently have set.

Thank you.  I've been running systemd for months and this is the first
time I've heard about systemd profiles.  I'm not using either gnome or
kde, so should I use default/linux/amd64/13.0/systemd, which doesn't
seem to care if I'm running a desktop machine or a headless server?