On Tue, Jul 21 2015, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 20 Jul 2015 21:13:19 -0400, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: > >> > Did you read this part? >> > >> > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64/Full/Installation#Optional:_Using_systemd >> >> Yes I did and had the systemd wiki page on a chromium tab while >> installing. >> >> > It's been some months since I last did this, but I don't recall any >> > serious conflicts. >> > >> > Why not just unmerge udev to avoid the blockage? >> >> I tried via depclean. I wanted to ask here before actually trying >> --unmerge, which seems rather brutal. I actually had a tiny part in the >> systemd wiki and remember that you could switch from an openrc system to >> systemd without unmerging. > > Sometimes you need to be brutal.
I suppose so. > Remember that udev is part of systemd, which is why you cannot have > both packages installed. After unmerging udev, emerging systemd brings > it back anyway. Your only window of risk is something happening > between those two operations, but since you are still working in a > chroot at this point, even that wouldn't matter. Probably the --unmerge would have worked. But I basically started over (untar of the stage3) and applied canek two-step recipe First switch to the systemd profile and emerge world Second switch to the gnome/system profile and emerge gnome It worked well. thanks again, allan
