On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 1:48 AM, Sander Jansen <s.jansen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > So I installed it today and tried it out. I still have to play with > it some more. Some initial impressions: Thanks for the comments! > - If you installed vala 0.10, systemd-git won't build, even though gtk > is disabled. This is a bug in the configure script of systemd. > Solution would be either to install vala-0.11 or remove vala from your > system. This is correct, and David Reisner (who is the maintainer of all the systemd packages) just submitted a patch upstream to fix it. > - I guess the initscripts-systemd is listed as an optional dependency > of systemd, but I'm not sure how usefull systemd is without it...? initscripts-systemd is needed if you want to regain all (ok, most) of the functionality of the Arch initscripts. However, if you don't care about all of that and only want a vanilla systemd setup then you should be happy with just installing the systemd package. > - The login console seems to be slightly messed up. I can login, but > error/log messages keep being send to the terminal as well. This is a known error, I added it to the FAQ <https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd#FAQ>. In short, this is due to lack of systemd support in syslog-ng. This will most probably be fixed soon (I think I read about someone working on this). For completeness: syslog-ng is one of three daemons (besides dbus and udev) that need special systemd patches to work nicely. rsyslog has this already and I believe the other major syslog implementations will get it soon (if it is accepted upstream...). > - I know how I can change the default target on the boot line, but can > I set it anywhere else? Yes. Added to the FAQ. You make a symlink from /etc/systemd/system/ to your desired target. > - sshd has listed network.service as a dependency, but what if you use > NetworkManager instead? Good point. I pushed a fix to my private repo <https://github.com/teg/systemd-arch-units/commit/3e1e735ba4b3a36df27717755d9f7610c39b0573>, it should make it into the AUR package soon (if it is correct). Cheers, Tom