On Sat, Jul 18 2015, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > On Sat, Jul 18, 2015 at 8:00 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I am installing gentoo on a new laptop. I am a gnome, hence systemd, >> user. I also use lvm (I have / and /usr combined on a non-lvm partition). >> >> At the point where you choose a profile >> (// > wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64/Full/Installation#Choosing_the_right_profile > ) >> I selected >> [5] default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop/gnome/systemd * >> >> But now I get merge conflicts since I have sys-fs/udev installed. >> I can't depclean udev. >> >> Should I have just used the default/linux/amd64/13.0 profile >> and switched later after the installation is complete. >> >> Fortunately, I don't need to used the new machine immediately so I don't >> mind starting the installation over from the beginning >> >> In a similar vein, my systems have PORTDIR=/var/portage. Am I correct >> in now believing that it is better to do the install with the default >> PORTDIR=/usr/portage and then switching after the dust settles > > What I usually do is: > > 1. Extract the stage 3 tarball > 2. Sync the portage tree > 3. Switch to the systemd profile > 4. emerge -uDNvp world (this usually solves the systemd/udev conflicts) > 5. emerge --depclean > 6. Switch to the GNOME/systemd profile > 7. Emerge gnome-base/gnome > > In my experience, if you switch directly to the GNOME/systemd profile, you > get many conflicts.
I certainly did. I will try your indirect root to gnome/systemd. If it works (and given the source I strongly suspect it will), I will try to get it included in the systemd wiki. > Regards. > -- > Canek Peláez Valdés Thank you, allan
