[arch-dev-public] Maintaining consolekit support in community

[Tom Gundersen]

On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Lukas Jirkovsky <l.jirkovsky at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'd like to maintain some basic support support for consolekit in
> [community], more specifically the polkit-consolekit,
> kdebase-workspace-consolekit packages and eventually consolekit
> package itself as long as possible, if you're not against it.
>
> I'm running kde (networkmanager) without systemd without problems on
> my laptop with these packages.

For what it is worth (not much, as I don't have any say over what goes
on in [community]), I think this is not really a good idea.

Wanting to keep initscripts around I would support, but doing this for
consolekit seems like a bad idea (at least in official repositories).
CK is dead upstream and has always had various issues, that I'd like
to be able to forget about soon. Also, I would have thought that
whatever people had against systemd, they would also have against CK?
I.e., I assumed people would only want to stick with initscripts if
they were running some minimalist system without
dbus/polkit/networkmanager/... .

That said, if you really do want to keep using CK, then I suggest it
should be done in one of two ways:
1) put the required packages in a third-party repo/AUR so people
understand that it is not really supported
2) keep support for CK enabled in the packages where this is possible
(kde is one I believe) and only add the ones where you have to make a
compile-time choice to community
(consolekit,polkit-consolekit,networkmanager-consolekit).

Just my two cents,

-t