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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


      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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