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

[Rich Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org>]

On Sat, Feb 10, 2018 at 7:16 PM, allan gottlieb <gottlieb@nyu.edu> wrote:
> I have a question on this news item.
>
> I use systemd (gnome3) on a gentoo stable system.
> eix reports that sys-apps/systemd-236-r5 is installed
>
> But
>    euse -I sysv-utils
> reports
>    no matching entries found
>
> Is something wrong?
>
> I do *not* have
>   sys-apps/sysvinit, sys-apps/openrc, or net-misc/netifrc
> in my world file.
>
> However, the last two are installed.
>

Interesting.  Does /sbin/reboot exist?  What does "qfile /sbin/reboot" return?

The only thing that is changing is a default - that flag was defaulted
off before, and is defaulted on now.  So, an emerge --changed-use -u
world should reinstall systemd with this flag enabled, assuming you
didn't manually disable it.

In any case, you can probably actually survive without poweroff,
reboot, etc, assuming you shutdown using systemctl.  Obviously some
legacy scripts/programs/etc that are supposed to shut down your system
might balk at the missing symlinks.  All the use flag does is install
compatibility symlinks to systemctl for these sysvinit programs and
their manpages.

Unless you have some package installed that explicitly depends on
sysvinit or openrc you should be fine.  Do you actually get any
blockers/etc?

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.

-- 
Rich