On Sun, Jul 19 2015, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 18 Jul 2015 21:00:54 -0400, [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. > > 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. Instead, you either changed use flags (+systemd and -consolekit) or went to the a systemd profile (recommended). allan
