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

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With OpenRC being used as init system, the role of systemd is reduced to that of a [https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Udev udev] provider, and for compatibility reasons.

[http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/eudev/ eudev], developed by the Gentoo folks, can be used as replacement. Note that removing systemd could cause incompatibilities with existing software~~, hence its advertised~~ as ~~being for advanced / minimalistic users.~~

[http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/eudev/ eudev], developed by the Gentoo folks, can be used as replacement. Note that removing systemd could cause some incompatibilities with existing software. The procedure is as follows:

Step 1) Install ''eudev-openrc'' (along with optional dependency ''eudev-systemdcompat''):

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I had to rebuild [https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gvfs-nosystemd/ gvfs] as my unmounted partitions were not being displayed.

If you want to reinstall systemd again, you can try the command '''sudo pacman -S --force systemd libsystemd'''. The ''--force'' flag is used because of some file conflicts between the libsystemd and libeudev packages. You may need to remove packages depending on eudev before executing this command.

== Troubleshooting ==

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 With OpenRC being used as init system, the role of systemd is reduced to that of a [https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Udev udev] provider, and for compatibility reasons.
-[http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/eudev/ eudev], developed by the Gentoo folks, can be used as replacement. Note that removing systemd could cause incompatibilities with existing software, hence its advertised as being for advanced / minimalistic users.
+[http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/eudev/ eudev], developed by the Gentoo folks, can be used as replacement. Note that removing systemd could cause some incompatibilities with existing software. The procedure is as follows:
 Step 1) Install ''eudev-openrc'' (along with optional dependency ''eudev-systemdcompat''):
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 I had to rebuild [https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gvfs-nosystemd/ gvfs] as my unmounted partitions were not being displayed.
+If you want to reinstall systemd again, you can try the command '''sudo pacman -S --force systemd libsystemd'''. The ''--force'' flag is used because of some file conflicts between the libsystemd and libeudev packages. You may need to remove packages depending on eudev before executing this command.
 == Troubleshooting ==