[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] consolekit dependencies?

[Gerhard Brauer]

Sorry for maybe double-posting, fist sent with wrong from-address
;-)

On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 04:34:04PM +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 11:42 AM, Thomas Bächler <thomas at archlinux.org> wrote:
> > Most (all?) of our login manager still depend on consolekit. However,
> > since consolekit support will be stripped from polkit when
> > gnome-unstable goes to testing (soon?), registering consolekit sessions
> > on login has no effect whatsoever.
> >
> > Should we rebuild our login managers to remove the consolekit dependencies?
> >
> > I rebuilt kdebase-workspace locally yesterday, and polkit seems to work
> > just fine. kde itself does not use consolekit, except through polkit.
> 
> Doing this makes sense to me. However, to make things clear-cut, it
> would be best if we could entirely remove consolekit from our repos
> and put up an announcement. That way people will not be confused as to
> why things stop working if they are not using logind.

This makes me a little nervous…
What are the way for people which ex. use fluxbox via
ck-launch-session and thunar as a filemanager (for
dbus/polkit/udisks things) AND NOT systemd-logind ?

Will there be a way to use dbus/polkit-releated actions without
systemd?

I got more and more confused about the speed and amount of changes
currently ;-)

> Cheers,
> 
> Tom

Regards
        Gerhard