On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 8:11 PM, eroen <er...@falcon.eroen.eu> wrote: > On Sun, 23 Feb 2014 19:47:55 -0600, Canek Peláez Valdés > <can...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 7:31 PM, eroen <er...@falcon.eroen.eu> wrote: >> > On Sun, 23 Feb 2014 18:02:01 +0100, Fox <halfsocial...@gmail.com> >> > wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> after reading the thread about systemd somebody mentioned >> >> sys-fs/eudev. I decided used because I had systemd only to used >> >> udev and unmerge systemd. >> >> >> >> Now I can't use Banshee which I use as my music player because of >> >> the next dependency tree: >> >> >> >> banshee >> >> <- gnome-base/gnome-settings-daemon >> >> <- sys-apps/gentoo-systemd-integration >> >> <- sys-apps/systemd >> >> >> >> and systemd can't be used because it conflicts with eudev. >> >> >> >> Is there anyway to avoid emerge systemd in this case? >> >> >> >> Thank you, >> >> Quim >> >> >> > >> > On a system running ~amd64 with eudev/openrc: >> > >> > eroen@falcon ~ $ emerge -pv media-sound/banshee >> > =gnome-base/gnome-settings-daemon-2.32.1-r2 >> > >> [ snip emerge output ] >> > >> > For ease of upgrades, you might want to add >> > >=gnome-base/gnome-settings-daemon-3 >> > in /etc/portage/package.mask rather than specifying it with a >> > specific version on the command line. >> >> That solution is a dead end. GNOME 2 is being removed from the >> tree[1]. >> >> Regards. >> >> [1] http://blogs.gentoo.org/eva/2014/02/16/the-future-of-gnome-2/ > > You probably mean "temporary". The expression "dead end" would imply it > makes future migration more difficult in some way.
Call it temporary if you want to. The point is that gnome-settings-daemon 2.x has been unmaintained for years now. > One would hope (mostly for their image's sake) the gnome team does > not remove gnome-settings-daemon-2 until at least one of > cinnamon-settings-daemon and mate-settings-daemon are included in > gentoo proper. Nobody cares about any team "image", I suppose. They are all volunteers. If you want cinnamon-sd or mate-sd to get into the tree, help out. Don't assume someone is going to do it for you. Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México