On Sat, Feb 10 2018, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Sat, Feb 10, 2018 at 7:16 PM, allan gottlieb <gottl...@nyu.edu> wrote: >> I have a question on this news item. >> >> I use systemd (gnome3) on a gentoo stable system. >> eix reports that sys-apps/systemd-236-r5 is installed >> >> But >> euse -I sysv-utils >> reports >> no matching entries found >> >> Is something wrong? >> >> I do *not* have >> sys-apps/sysvinit, sys-apps/openrc, or net-misc/netifrc >> in my world file. >> >> However, the last two are installed. >> > > Interesting. Does /sbin/reboot exist?
gottlieb@E6430 ~ $ ls -l /sbin/reboot lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Jan 28 13:08 /sbin/reboot -> ../bin/systemctl > What does "qfile /sbin/reboot" return? gottlieb@E6430 ~ $ qfile /sbin/reboot sys-apps/systemd (/sbin/reboot) > The only thing that is changing is a default - that flag was defaulted > off before, and is defaulted on now. So, an emerge --changed-use -u > world should reinstall systemd with this flag enabled, assuming you > didn't manually disable it. I have not dis- or en- abled the flag > In any case, you can probably actually survive without poweroff, > reboot, etc, assuming you shutdown using systemctl. Obviously some > legacy scripts/programs/etc that are supposed to shut down your system > might balk at the missing symlinks. All the use flag does is install > compatibility symlinks to systemctl for these sysvinit programs and > their manpages. My poweroff sequence is to use the gnome icon to logoff and then the gnome icon to poweroff > Unless you have some package installed that explicitly depends on > sysvinit or openrc you should be fine. Do you actually get any > blockers/etc? No blockers. I have two similar machines. Only problems are a long-standing difficulty with one machine compiling chromium and a known bug in compiling webkit-gtk-2.4.11-r200 on either machine. > Ultimately it comes down to whether you care about the compatibility > symlinks. It probably isn't a bad idea to have them though. Maybe > some day you'll install a UPS and its shutdown scripts will just call > shutdown/poweroff/etc and not work. Software that shuts down using > either systemctl or dbus would be fine. Since you lean toward having the symlinks, why is the new default for the use flag on? Upstream? Also why do I have the symlinks with the 236-r5 system, contracting the news item. (This is true for both machines.) Thanks again for all your help, allan
