I'd expect the usual pioneering of Arch for giving the option. I guess it's up to the maintainers, but I don't see what could delay it in comparison to Fedora. Is any special building flag needed that could get in the way? 2014-04-06 21:44 GMT-03:00 Daniel Micay <danielmicay@gmail.com>:
On 06/04/14 12:43 AM, Mark Lee wrote:
Salutations,
Since Fedora 21 is working on dropping X root rights via systemd-logind. Does Arch intend to follow?
From, Mark
Thanks to the work on logind, our Weston package already works as non-root if you launch it as `weston` instead of `weston-launch`.
When xorg-server 1.16 is released, this will also work for X. I've been planning on splitting out `weston-launch` from the regular Weston package or simply removing it (unsure if there are any usable video drivers requiring it) and I assume the setuid binary for X will have a similar fate.