On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 7:30 AM, Tanstaafl <tansta...@libertytrek.org> wrote: > On 2013-07-31 8:22 AM, Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote: >> >> On Wed, 31 Jul 2013 07:34:22 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: >> >>> Where is this 'INSTALL_MASK' option for opting out of systemd >>> completely documented? >> >> >> man make.conf > > > Thanks but... I didn't see one word mention of systemd. > > So, how should this be used to 'opt out of systemd completely'?
If you don't use the systemd USE flag (and never install anything that depends on systemd), you will not get systemd installed, but many packages will install systemd unit files in /urs/lib/systemd/system. This unit files are little non-executable files which do nothing in your system, but some people feel really strongly about having anything in their machines with *systemd* in its path. If you want to exorcise those unit files, add /usr/lib/systemd/system to INSTALL_MASK. It's the exact same situation with OpenRC: those of us who install systemd don't want nor need the files in /etc/init.d, but they get installed anyway. If we want to exorcise OpenRC init scripts from our systems, we need to add /etc/init.d to INSTALL_MASK. For the record, I now think it's a waste of time trying to stop the installation of tiny files that basically do nothing, either in /usr/lib/systemd/system or in /etc/init.d, but you have the option if you so desire. Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
