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From: "Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn" <chithanh@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Making systemd more accessible to "normal" users
Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2013 12:34:41
Message-Id: 51B1D353.9040002@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Making systemd more accessible to "normal" users by Olav Vitters
1 Olav Vitters schrieb:
2 >> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=464944
3 > That bugreport is regarding an optional dependency for the power
4 > handling. It is correct that Ubuntu will switch from ConsoleKit to
5 > logind, so it does make sense to either maintain ConsoleKit or use
6 > logind. But it still is an optional dependency.
7
8 You are correct that it is not a hard dependency in a strict sense.
9 However, suspend support and session management are not obscure
10 seldom-used functions. So logind becomes a hard requirement for enough
11 users which justifies calling it that way.
12
13
14 Best regards,
15 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Making systemd more accessible to "normal" users Olav Vitters <olav@×××××××.nl>