On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 06:11:02PM +0530, Yohan Pereira wrote > On 31/07/13 at 08:30am, Tanstaafl wrote: > > So, how should this be used to 'opt out of systemd completely'? > > from main make.conf > "Use this variable if you want to selectively prevent certain > files from being copied into your file system tree. .." > > You can use it to prevent ebuilds from installing unit files > or open-rc scripts from doing so (based on what you want to opt-out of).
From the man page... > INSTALL_MASK = [space delimited list of file names] I do not want to input umpteen files names, or even extensions. The man page says nothing about masking out directories. Here's what I had on my system a few minutes ago before executing "rm -rf /usr/lib/systemd/" [i660][waltdnes][/usr/lib] ll -ogR /usr/lib/systemd /usr/lib/systemd: total 56 drwxr-xr-x 3 4096 May 12 20:42 . drwxr-xr-x 53 45056 Jul 28 03:18 .. drwxr-xr-x 4 4096 Jun 14 02:45 system /usr/lib/systemd/system: total 44 drwxr-xr-x 4 4096 Jun 14 02:45 . drwxr-xr-x 3 4096 May 12 20:42 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 155 Jun 14 02:45 acpid.service -rw-r--r-- 1 119 Jun 14 02:45 acpid.socket -rw-r--r-- 1 220 Jun 14 02:45 alsa-restore.service -rw-r--r-- 1 168 Jun 14 02:45 alsa-store.service drwxr-xr-x 2 4096 Jun 14 02:45 basic.target.wants drwxr-xr-x 2 4096 Jun 14 02:45 shutdown.target.wants -rw-r--r-- 1 242 May 12 19:27 sshd.service -rw-r--r-- 1 136 May 12 19:27 sshd.socket -rw-r--r-- 1 176 May 12 19:27 sshd@.service /usr/lib/systemd/system/basic.target.wants: total 8 drwxr-xr-x 2 4096 Jun 14 02:45 . drwxr-xr-x 4 4096 Jun 14 02:45 .. lrwxrwxrwx 1 23 Jun 14 02:45 alsa-restore.service -> ../alsa-restore.service /usr/lib/systemd/system/shutdown.target.wants: total 8 drwxr-xr-x 2 4096 Jun 14 02:45 . drwxr-xr-x 4 4096 Jun 14 02:45 .. lrwxrwxrwx 1 21 Jun 14 02:45 alsa-store.service -> ../alsa-store.service Maybe I should simply make a wrapper script that throws in... "rm -rf /usr/lib/systemd/" at the end of an emerge. -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
