On Tue, 03 Jun 2014 14:38:34 +0300 Samuli Suominen <ssuomi...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > On 03/06/14 14:30, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > Sounds like Samuli is being a pr*ck by forcing systemd on everyone > > now. A proper solution would have been to have the upower ebuild > > select systemd as a dependency ONLY when the systemd useflag is set. > > And depend on upower-pm-utils when it is not set. -- Joost > > First of all, you should check your tone and secondly, you are clearly > not understanding the situation as you are oversimplifying a complex > situation. > For example, Xfce works on non-systemd systems with any of these > UPower versions, so forcing upower-pm-utils with USE="-systemd" would > simply be bogus. It is simply not true. I use xfce and still I could not update my world just because some systemd-dependent guys think that they can force everybody else to use it. > If you are looking for a system that decides everything for you, and > doesn't give you options what to install, you are propably better off > using some binary distribution with smaller set of possibilities. I look for the system that can clearly update itself, not trying to sell me something that I do not need after I have clearly decided for the default package before.