On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 4:26 PM, Róbert Čerňanský <ope...@tightmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, 5 Dec 2013 15:18:54 -0600 > Canek Peláez Valdés <can...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 2:36 PM, Róbert Čerňanský >> <ope...@tightmail.com> wrote: >> > Hello all, >> > >> > I am currently updating my system and Portage wants to replace udev >> > (204) with systemd (208). My question is (hopefully) simple: >> > >> > Can I use systemd as drop-in replacement for udev? In other words, >> > can I pretend that systemd is udev and continue using OpenRC as >> > with udev itself? I would then apply just udev 204 to 208 update >> > instructions (http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Udev/upgrade). >> > >> > I am using WindowMaker and systemd was pulled in by >> > gnome-settings-daemon which in turn was pulled in by gdm. I would >> > like to stick with gdm. >> >> The GNOME stuff that requires systemd will not work under OpenRC from >> 3.10 on, you could get strange fails with gdm and >> gnome-settings-daemon. If it's gdm-3.8, then I think you can use >> systemd as udev replacement together with OpenRC, and I believe some >> people did it successfully. > > Thanks. I have enabled openrc-force use flag found this in > gnome-settings-daemon emerge log, which confirms what you have said: > > "gnome-settings-daemon needs Systemd to be *running* for working > properly. Please follow the this guide to migrate: > http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Systemd > You are enabling 'openrc-force' USE flag to skip systemd requirement, > this can lead to unexpected problems and is not supported neither by > upstream neither by Gnome Gentoo maintainers. If you suffer any problem, > you will need to disable this USE flag system wide and retest before > opening any bug report." > > So the it is clear to me now. > > I will try openrc-force as temporal solution until I'll find a new > display manager and give heart breaking good by to GDM.
You could *try* to run systemd and see if you like it. Many of us do. Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
