Re: [gentoo-user] [ANNOUNCE] I like systemd now :)

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

On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 7:53 PM, Keith Dart <keith@dartworks.biz> wrote:
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> Canek Peláez Valdés said:
>> Just a word of advice: if you are a normal laptop user, systemd has
>> replaced most of the functionality of consolekit; so if you boot with
>> systemd, several packages need to have enable the systemd USE flag
>> (and the consolekit one disabled). In particular, pambase and polkit
>> need to set either systemd or consolekit, but cannot set both.
>
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> Ok, it's also helpful to add the systemd overlay and emerge
> "systemd-units" and "baselayout-systemd".

Mmmh. I stopped using that overlay years ago. It's still maintained?

> You also have to enable by hand most services. There wasn't one for
> lightdm (to get graphical login), but "slim" had one so I just switched
> to that. Turns out I like that one better, anyway. :-)

You can also link /etc/systemd/system/display-manager.service to your
preferred login manager. Recent versions of systemd will take care of
everything else.

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