Re: [gentoo-dev] Questions about SystemD and OpenRC

[Michał Górny]

On Mon, 13 Aug 2012 12:47:51 -0700
Christopher Head <headch@×××××.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 12 Aug 2012 11:03:01 +0300
> Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o> wrote:
>
> > > 2. I saw on some lists that Gnome/Kde and Xfce plan to use some
> > > SystemD API, so does it means that we will need to install SystemD
> > > aside of OpenRC ?
> >
> > For Xfce it only means that xfce4-session will try to query
> > credentials also from systemd, not ConsoleKit alone
> >
> > There are no plans of removing ConsoleKit support for Xfce wrt
> > upstream anytime soon since Xfce is committed for long-term BSD
> > support, and the Xfce development team includes developers, from eg.
> > OpenBSD
> >
> > > 4. Finally, is there any reason why Gnome/Kde/Xfce wants to add
> > > deps related to SystemD ? I don't understand why these desktops
> > > want to depend on a specific Sysint....
> >
> > || ( sys-auth/consolekit sys-apps/systemd ) or something can be done
> > if the package tries to query both via DBUS calls
> > As in, something needs to tell PolicyKit (polkit) that you are a
> > local user and thus grant access to eg. USB removable devices
> >
>
> What about those of us who are perfectly happy using neither one? I’ve
> never had any of the Kits installed, and the recommendation has always
> been to just put yourself in the “plugdev” group which has worked
> fine. Is this going to continue to be possible, or is this going away?

I can't say whether at some point GNOME wouldn't try hard to force this
on us, but it will be still supported one way or another. There are
still people (like me) working on alternate solutions, and those people
will try hard to keep things working as they like them.

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Best regards,
Michał Górny