On 07/08/13 05:25, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote:
On Tue, Aug 06 2013, Samuli Suominen wrote:
that's only because gnome 3.8 hasn't been stabilized yet. as in, there
are no plans in keeping gnome 2.x available after gnome 3.8
stabilization.
Am I correct in believing that gnome-3.8 (whether in testing as now, or
stable later) requires init=systemd? I am converting an old ~amd64
machine to systemd for practice so that I can convert my main laptop
(also ~amd64) to systemd. The purpose of the conversions is to run
gnome-3.8 and higher. I have other machines running stable. Will I
need to convert them to systemd when gnome-3.8 becomes stable and if so
will the systemd wiki be expanded.
Yes, GNOME 3.8+ does require sys-apps/systemd installed and running as
init= for full functionality[1]
However if you don't care about full functionality[1] you can still run
GNOME 3.8+ with OpenRC while sys-apps/systemd is installed (because
sys-apps/systemd has it's own copy of udev that still works with OpenRC)
[1] HW support, like (auto)mounting and suspend/hibernate
