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

[Dave Reisner]

On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 4:33 PM, Greg Bouzakis <gregbouzakis at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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

No, my blog post is a workaround for the current status quo. If
"everyone" is going to need
to do this, we may as well just modify our own shipped
/etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc as proprosed
here:

https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/32206

dave