Re: [gentoo-user] Au revoir, gnome-3.8

["Canek Peláez Valdés" <caneko@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 11:13 AM, Henry W. Peters <hwpeters@jamadots.com> wrote:
> On 8/9/2013 8:58 AM, Bruce Hill wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 09, 2013 at 02:48:21PM +0200, hasufell wrote:
>>>
>>> You can use a proper mail client and filter messages.
>>
>> I use the most proper mail client, but have never read HOW-TO filter
>> messages.
>> using D has worked to prune the list.
>
> Do not really wish to belabor POINTLESSLY, the topic here, but perhaps there
> is a more positive way to head toward ending  this discussion (or at least
> view some implications for the future, & a more forward discussion)...?
>
> I have been preparing a AMD64 machine to install Gentoo on, had anticipated
> (as a present/former) Gnome user, stopped because of (video card)
> incompatibilities with Gnome 3 (& Gentoo, which I tried to install), on my
> old machine...
>
> So it seems most of the discussion on this thread is regarding "upgrading"
> problems... My question would be regarding a "clean" install & using Gnome
> 3? Thing to do (or not), & so forth.
>
> Thanks for any (hopefully) constructive suggestions/links, etc..

There has been talks about mentioning systemd as an option in the
handbook, but nothing is written yet. When GNOME 3.8 goes stable, the
GNOME team will have an upgrade howto document (as they have always
done), but said document isn't available yet.

I thought the wiki had more or less the basics right, but Allan made
me notice that it doesn't even mention consolekit, so that's also
incomplete.

Since I deprecated the gentoo-systemd-only overlay, I've been thinking
about writing guides for installing Gentoo with systemd as init
system, and migrating to systemd; but I haven't gotten the time.

I would recommend to install the base system (without GNOME),
migrating to systemd (which should be relatively easy without GNOME),
and then installing GNOME. If you do it when GNOME 3.8 is stable, it
should be even easier.

If you do it, please let us know how it went.

Regards.
-- 
Canek Peláez Valdés
Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México