[arch-general] Moving CK-removal + GNOME 3.6? Announcement draft.

Greg Bouzakis gregbouzakis at gmail.com
Mon Oct 29 16:33:55 EDT 2012


Tom Gundersen wrote:

> What about:
> 
> "ConsoleKit replaced by logind
> 
> With GNOME 3.6, polkit and networkmanager moving to extra, 
ConsoleKit
> has now been removed from the repositories. Any package that
> previously depended on it now relies on systemd-logind 
instead. That
> means that the system must be booted with systemd to be 
fully
> functional.
> 
> In addition to GNOME, both KDE and XFCE are also affected by 
this change."

This is mostly OK but not only users of DE's are affected.
Its pretty much everyone but at least a mention on DM's should 
be
added as well.
And probably a mention on [0] as a solution for people not 
using one.

[0]: http://blog.falconindy.com/articles/back-to-basics-with-
x-and-systemd.html

My 2 cents

Greg


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