On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 11:52:16AM +0100, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: > > Simple question: logind is maintained, ConsoleKit is not. I have not > > seen anyone raise this. Why? > > That one is easy. Both are written by the same predominantly mayor > author and in some ways one project is superset of the other, and/or > compete to provide same feature. It's not unreasonable for one author
That's not what I am after. XFCE without systemd relies on ConsoleKit. ConsoleKit has not been developed for 1.5 years. That Debian strives for supporting everything I understand. But getting into specifics: - for non-Linux support on XFCE or GNOME you will have to rely on ConsoleKit - ConsoleKit maintenance has not been picked up Having an ideology of having things work across multiple kernels is nice. But to get there, actual real maintenance needs to be picked up. Simply said: whatever if offered as default better well work and be maintained (note: please don't see this as "you should not switch to XFCE"; I am purely after an answer on ConsoleKit). I don't see this happening, at all. When the GNOME release team is asked for a solution we make *concrete* decisions: use X, or Y or maybe try and support both. If you want to influence these decisions, I want something more than to a choice between something greatly supported (logind) vs something abandoned (ConsoleKit). Note that this is just one case. Aside from this case there are various others. I've raised ConsoleKit as being an issue end of January 2012: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/distributor-list/2012-January/msg00002.html This on distributor-list, the way we communicate with anyone distributing GNOME (distributions, *BSD). We raised this same issue various times btw. In this thread I continue to see people saying that we're forcing things. :-( -- Regards, Olav -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20131025114055.gb7...@bkor.dhs.org
