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From: Brian Evans <grknight@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] State of elogind integration and the default +elogind local USE flag on xorg-server.
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2019 20:43:32
Message-Id: 26a93120-1571-0d09-94b4-9b67d4d8bed3@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] State of elogind integration and the default +elogind local USE flag on xorg-server. by Piotr Karbowski
1 On 3/22/2019 4:32 PM, Piotr Karbowski wrote:
2 > Hi,
3 >
4 > I'd like to propose doing the following:
5 >
6 > - Keywording elogind on missing archs
7 > - Making elogind a global USE flag
8 > - Switching desktop profiles to elogind from consolekit while still
9 > preserving -suid +elogind on xorg-server for those that does not use
10 > desktop profiles (systemd profiles users not affected)
11 > - Making pambase always install the configuration for pam_elogind.so,
12 > the same way it does for pam_gnome_keyring.so at this very moment,
13 > effectively removing elogind USE flag from it.
14 >
15 > What do you all think about?
16 >
17 > -- Piotr.
18 >
19
20 What are the implications, if any, of using DMs which are not aware of
21 {,e}logind? Do they work without modification?
22
23 Afaik, only sddm or, now, gdm even have an elogind USE flag.
24
25 All other DMs have consolekit support but unknown elogind status.
26
27 Brian

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