William Hubbs closed bug #409385[1] as fixed, introducing virtual/service-manager and adding it to the @system set, and dropping OpenRC from baselayout's post dependencies.
Therefore, as of today, anyone can have a Gentoo machine with only systemd, with no OpenRC installed. Since that was the raison d'être of the gentoo-systemd-only overlay[2], I'm deprecating it soon. If you install dracut you will also pull sysvinit (it's needed for killall5, IIRC), and installing baselayout (instead of systemd-baselayout) will make orphans of some systemd configuration files (like /etc/vconsole.conf and /etc/machine-info); but I consider those only minor problems, and I would strongly recommend to *anyone* using my gentoo-systemd-only overlay to drop it and use the official mechanism in the tree to install only systemd, replacing completely OpenRC. Also, without OpenRC we don't have /etc/init.d/functions.sh , but you can use the alternatives provided in my overlay or in bug #373219[3]. I'm pretty sure someone will close that bug pretty soon. Basically, systemd is now a first class citizen in Gentoo (on par with OpenRC), and therefore there is no need at all for using my overlay. Thanks to all the people who helped me with pull requests and comments; the deprecation of the overlay is great news, since now it's officially possible in Gentoo to ditch OpenRC and switch completely to systemd. Regards. [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=409385 [2] https://github.com/canek-pelaez/gentoo-systemd-only [3] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=373219 -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
