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

[Greg Bouzakis]

Dave Reisner wrote:

> 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

Yes, too many people will be affected.
IMO this should be fixed before moving the packages to extra.

Greg

PS. (hopefully) fixed the editor, yay!