On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 11:40 AM, Ian Stakenvicius <a...@gentoo.org> wrote: > It may be pertinent for this reason (a "smoother" upgrade path) and > this reason alone, to stabilize gnome-3.6 first -- just to get into > gnome3 (and get gnome-2 removed) without having to also deal with the > systemd migration at the same time.
I'd defer to Pacho who seems to be giving thought to planning for the upgrade path. My suggestion would be that it would make more sense to first switch to systemd running the current gnome. Switching to systemd is really the harder change here, and systemd works just fine with earlier versions of gnome AFAIK. There are already migration guides for systemd (though I haven't tried them recently - the last time I did I got burned by the fact that dhcpcd doesn't run by default as it does in openrc-oldnet (or whatever we're going to call it)). Migrating to systemd on a system that doesn't run many services isn't actually that hard. The biggest pain is hunting down unit files if you have a lot of things that don't provide them, and doing all the config (anything in /etc/conf.d basically needs a redo). Rich
