On Fri, Sep 06 2013, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 1:27 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Canek, Thanks for this information. But what about my original >> question, namely >> >> Can I remove my masks and let gnome-3.8 replace 3.6 (to the >> extent portage let's it) while I am running openrc and do >> *not* have systemd installed? > > No, you can't: systemd is now a requirement for GNOME 3; gdm-3.8.4 > requires systemd unconditionally. If you try to install GNOME 3.8, it > will install gdm 3.8.4, which will bring systemd. You cannot install > gdm without systemd; therefore, you cannot install gnome-base/gnome > without systemd. > > You could *try* to update the pieces of GNOME to 3.8 that doesn't > require systemd, but I don't think that will end happily. > > Regards.
That is what I suspected. I will keep the gnome-3.8 packages masked while I build up an old system and then try to convert it to systemd. When the conversion succeeds, I will try to convert my real system. thanks again for your help, allan
