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

[Rich Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org>]

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.

-- 
Rich