On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 4:09 AM, Nuno Silva <nunojsi...@ist.utl.pt> wrote: > On 2013-03-22, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > >> On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 7:45 PM, João Matos <jaon...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Hi list, >>> >>> do you know some guide to switch form systemd to openrc, or keep both? I >>> googled and I didn't find. >>> >>> The motivation is that I'm studing many server stuff, and I'm tired of >>> search for alternatives to systemd (that is really good). I also set up some >>> servers, using openrc on them, so, sometimes I like to reproduce the >>> configuration o my machine. >>> >>> If possible, I prefer to keep both. If not, I'll switch back to openrc. >>> >>> I've enable the openrc user flag, updated the system, I created a grub >>> entrace, and everything seems to work pretty well on openrc, but I cant >>> start the X. "no screens found", but dbus, udev and consolekit are started >>> without error. >>> >>> Everything is working with systemd. >> >> For "server stuff", you should have no problem. If the machine where >> you want to have both systemd and OpenRC also works as a desktop >> workstation, right now that is not possible; there are several desktop >> packages that cannot decide at run time if they use systemd (actually, >> logind) or ConsoleKit (polkit being the most obvious). > > Are these packages essential or the like? I don't think my desktop > systems have dependencies either on systemd or polkit/consolekit.
If you don't need user session monitoring for anything (which is what ConsoleKit and logind provides), nor interactive privilege granting (which is what polkit provides), then I believe you will have no problems switching OpenRC and systemd withouth needing to recompile anything. However, that means no upower and no udisks at least; GNOME cannot run without any of those. XFCE needs them if the udev USE flag is enabled, which is enabled by default in Gentoo desktop profiles, and in KDE the three of them are optional dependencies turned on by default. You can turn them of in XFCE and KDE, but you kinda lose functionality without them. > What is logind used for? User session monitoring, as ConsoleKit did, only better: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/logind Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
