Difference between revisions of "OpenRC, an alternative to systemd"

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The '''consolekit-openrc''' package can be installed. Consolekit supports multi-user setups, mounting of partitions by unauthorized users, etc. See the [https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/ConsoleKit Gentoo-Wiki] for more details.  
The '''consolekit-openrc''' package can be installed. Consolekit supports multi-user setups, mounting of partitions by unauthorized users, etc. See the [https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/ConsoleKit Gentoo-Wiki] for more details.  
Only caveat of installing consolekit is that it requires ''polkit-consolekit'', which conflicts with the normal polkit; so if you boot to systemd you wont be able to mount partitions if you are not in the storage group.
However using the command line, or as root user, one can mount any partition or perform most functions that are made available to the normal user via polkit. See the [https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Polkit Arch-wiki] for more details.


Consolekit also allows a normal (non-root) user to shutdown or restart the system if the desktop environment supports it.
Consolekit also allows a normal (non-root) user to shutdown or restart the system if the desktop environment supports it.


See the [[Openrc#Using_Consolekit | Using Consolekit]] section on how to install and for more info.
See the [[Openrc#Using_Consolekit | Using Consolekit]] section on how to install it and for more info.


==== openrc-desktop ====
==== openrc-desktop ====
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