From: gottlieb@nyu.edu
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: must I mask gnome-3.8 until I am running systemd
Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2013 16:30:12 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mwnpr8vf.fsf@nyu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADPrc83MkBzWBm5zB4OpqL4bQOZ88FOhV2dimajY=JZfZP2ByA@mail.gmail.com> ("Canek Peláez Valdés"'s message of "Fri, 6 Sep 2013 13:43:09 -0500")
On Fri, Sep 06 2013, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 1:27 PM, <gottlieb@nyu.edu> wrote:
>>
>> Canek, Thanks for this information. But what about my original
>> question, namely
>>
>> Can I remove my masks and let gnome-3.8 replace 3.6 (to the
>> extent portage let's it) while I am running openrc and do
>> *not* have systemd installed?
>
> No, you can't: systemd is now a requirement for GNOME 3; gdm-3.8.4
> requires systemd unconditionally. If you try to install GNOME 3.8, it
> will install gdm 3.8.4, which will bring systemd. You cannot install
> gdm without systemd; therefore, you cannot install gnome-base/gnome
> without systemd.
>
> You could *try* to update the pieces of GNOME to 3.8 that doesn't
> require systemd, but I don't think that will end happily.
>
> Regards.
That is what I suspected. I will keep the gnome-3.8 packages masked
while I build up an old system and then try to convert it to systemd.
When the conversion succeeds, I will try to convert my real system.
thanks again for your help,
allan
prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-06 20:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-06 0:43 [gentoo-user] must I mask gnome-3.8 until I am running systemd gottlieb
2013-09-06 1:19 ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2013-09-06 2:48 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2013-09-06 18:27 ` gottlieb
2013-09-06 18:43 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2013-09-06 20:30 ` gottlieb [this message]
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