Re: [gentoo-user] sys-power/upower with systemd

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On 24/06/2014 10:08, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> On 06/24/2014 10:01:24 AM, Marc Joliet wrote:
>> Am Mon, 23 Jun 2014 20:39:13 -0400
>> schrieb gottlieb@nyu.edu:
>>
>> > I think I had first misinterpreted the news msg, but want to be sure I
>> > do understand it correctly now.
>> >
>> > The message ends with
>> >
>> >   All non-systemd users are recommended to choose between:
>> >   # emerge --oneshot --noreplace 'sys-power/upower-pm-utils'
>> >   or
>> >   # emerge --oneshot --noreplace '>=sys-power/upower-0.99.0'
>> >   However, all systemd users are recommended to stay with
>> sys-power/upower.
>> >
>> > I first read "stay with sys-power/upower" to mean systemd users should
>> > NOT do any of the two options for non-systemd users and let portage "do
>> > its thing".  However, portage want to replace upower with
>> > upower-pm-utils, which I am pretty sure is not intended for systemd
>> > users.
>> >
>> > Is the proper reading of the news message, that the systemd users
>> should
>> > use the second option available for non-systemd users?  Specifically am
>> > I to execute
>> >
>> >     # emerge --oneshot --noreplace '>=sys-power/upower-0.99.0'
>> >
>> > ?
>>
>> Um, personally, I think the message is extremely clear: non-systemd users
>> should choose between the first two options, and systemd users should
>> just
>> stick with plain upower, regardless of version (although there is only
>> one
>> ATM, the older one is masked now).
>>
> 
> Hi, please tell me - what is a systemd user?




A systemd user is someone who has systemd installed and *is using it*

How can that be unclear?





> 
> I have systemd AND openrc installed here and I still don't use systemd
> as my
> init system. Am I a systemd user?
> I ask because I cannot installed some packages, some require upower-0.99.0
> others fail with it.
> 
> Thanks,
> Helmut
> 
> 
> 
> 


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