On Thursday 05 Jun 2014 12:26:09 Samuli Suominen wrote: > On 05/06/14 13:47, Tom Wijsman wrote: > > On Thu, 5 Jun 2014 06:23:38 +0100 > > > > Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Are you saying that as things stand it is a matter of time before a > >> gentoo user will have to switch from openrc to systemd, if they > >> want/need to continue using sleep and hibernate? > > > > For them to have support for sleep and hibernate, someone needs to > > develop / maintain it in order to adapt to kernel API changes; as long > > as the only one doing this is systemd, you'll work towards only it > > being supported there in the future. > > Correct, and to name an example, pm-utils is still using the old > wireless stack and > 'wireless-utils' instead of 'iw' > As in, pm-utils is using kernel options that are marked as DEPRECATED in > the menuconfig, and DEPRECATED means they are going away at some point So > it won't be long the package is broken for every machine that has wireless > card > I'm sure there are multiple other examples available, but this one pops > up to > mind immediately
Fair enough, I've keyworded sys-power/upower-0.99.0 for now on one machine and it seems to work fine, without imposing systemd at the moment. :-) -- Regards, Mick
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