On 25 July 2013 22:31, Canek Peláez Valdés <can...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 3:06 PM, András Csányi <sayusi.a...@sayusi.hu> wrote: >> Hi All,
[snip] > Unity is in the tree? Where? In the unity-gentoo overlay. At the moment the overlay packages are clashing the already unmasked gnome-3.8. It requires a little job to manage it. > The ebuild for packagekit-base has a hard dependency on consolekit, > without an option for systemd. This is because the last version of > PackageKit in the tree is 0.7.4, which is more than a year older (was > released in April 2012). > > If you use Unity, the DE by Canonical for Ubuntu, the last thing you > want is systemd. Canonical/Ubuntu is pretty clear on the fact that > they support Upstart, not systemd. I did not know that. Based on that gnome wants systemd and unity uses gnome stuff I thought that there is a strong relation between them. > And lastly, why do you want/need PackageKit? It worked horribly with > portage, last time I tried some years ago. Gnome wants that and I do not know why. Maybe I did not pay enough attention for the USE flag which pulls in it. It requires an action - just being agile for a moment not having the first coffee today. :S > If you use GNOME you need to use systemd. Unity is a completely > different beast (although it uses the same technologies behind the > curtains), and systemd would be blocked by some Unity stuff, if I > understand correctly. I switched back to consolekit to avoid the possible collisions. The first thing I want is the Unity system working properly. After that I'm going to ask the guys who manages the unity overlay about consolekit/systemd stuff. -- -- Csanyi Andras (Sayusi Ando) -- http://sayusi.hu -- http://facebook.com/andras.csanyi -- ""Trust in God and keep your gunpowder dry!" - Cromwell
