Re: [gentoo-user] "systemd sysv-utils blocker resolution"

[allan gottlieb <gottlieb@nyu.edu>]

On Sat, Feb 10 2018, Rich Freeman wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 10, 2018 at 10:02 PM, allan gottlieb <gottlieb@nyu.edu> wrote:
>> On Sat, Feb 10 2018, Rich Freeman wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Interesting.  Does /sbin/reboot exist?
>>
>> gottlieb@E6430 ~ $ ls -l /sbin/reboot
>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Jan 28 13:08 /sbin/reboot -> ../bin/systemctl
>>
>>> What does "qfile /sbin/reboot" return?
>>
>> gottlieb@E6430 ~ $ qfile /sbin/reboot
>> sys-apps/systemd (/sbin/reboot)
>
> Ok, your systemd is built with USE=sysv-utils.
>
>>> Ultimately it comes down to whether you care about the compatibility
>>> symlinks.  It probably isn't a bad idea to have them though.  Maybe
>>> some day you'll install a UPS and its shutdown scripts will just call
>>> shutdown/poweroff/etc and not work.  Software that shuts down using
>>> either systemctl or dbus would be fine.
>>
>> Since you lean toward having the symlinks, why is the new default for
>> the use flag on?  Upstream?
>
> When the flag is on the symlinks are created.  They're only missing
> (from systemd) when the flag is off.
>
>> Also why do I have the symlinks with the 236-r5 system, contracting the
>> news item.  (This is true for both machines.)
>
> You have them because the default is USE=sysv-utils, which installs
> the symlinks.
>
> The real question is why euse didn't show you has having the flag
> enabled.  That I'm not sure about.  It shows it as enabled on my
> system.  I'd have to dig into where it is getting its data and how
> this might get out of sync.
>
> To avoid a second email - a lack of depcleaning might explain why
> software like openrc/netifrc is still installed.  I don't believe it
> has anything to do with the output of euse.

Thank you (and dale) again.
allan