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On Mon, 2019-04-01 at 01:23 +0200, Andreas Sturmlechner wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> We've had sys-auth/elogind available in Gentoo repo for quite a while now, and |
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> it seems to work fine for many people, as Plasma, Cinnamon, and the recently |
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> added Gnome support have shown. In the last few days, elogind support was also |
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> brought to MATE and Xfce. |
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> Meanwhile, sys-auth/consolekit is showing its age, with the upstream |
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> repository not touched in more than a year. At least for Plasma and SDDM I am |
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> aware of several paper cuts with it, that simply no one is bothering to fix for |
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> years, and it makes us depend on sys-power/pm-utils - which is really dead - |
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> for suspend. Combine that with the ^^ ( elogind systemd ) requirement in |
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> Cinnamon and Gnome, and it should be obvious that elogind is becoming the |
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> better default setting. |
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And I would think that USE=systemd would be the obvious better default, |
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with more coverage than elogind :-P. |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |