On Wed, Aug 07 2013, Samuli Suominen wrote: > On 07/08/13 05:25, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 06 2013, Samuli Suominen wrote: >> >>> that's only because gnome 3.8 hasn't been stabilized yet. as in, there >>> are no plans in keeping gnome 2.x available after gnome 3.8 >>> stabilization. >> >> Am I correct in believing that gnome-3.8 (whether in testing as now, or >> stable later) requires init=systemd? I am converting an old ~amd64 >> machine to systemd for practice so that I can convert my main laptop >> (also ~amd64) to systemd. The purpose of the conversions is to run >> gnome-3.8 and higher. I have other machines running stable. Will I >> need to convert them to systemd when gnome-3.8 becomes stable and if so >> will the systemd wiki be expanded. > > Yes, GNOME 3.8+ does require sys-apps/systemd installed and running as > init= for full functionality[1] > > However if you don't care about full functionality[1] you can still > run GNOME 3.8+ with OpenRC while sys-apps/systemd is installed > (because sys-apps/systemd has it's own copy of udev that still works > with OpenRC) > > [1] HW support, like (auto)mounting and suspend/hibernate
Thanks for the explanation. Since suspend/resume is important for me, I will keep up the effort to go to systemd. allan
