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

[Leonid Isaev]

On Sat, 13 Oct 2012 16:34:04 +0200
Tom Gundersen <teg at jklm.no> 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.
> 
> In addition to the gnome+kde packages the relevant packages we would
> have to make sure still work without consolekit are:
> 
> lxdm
> oblogout
> slim
> udiskie (optional)
> xfce4-session

xfce-session doesn't support systemd-logind at the moment. Please see the bug
report at <https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8729>...

> xorg-xdm
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Tom



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