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From: Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o>
To: Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@g.o>
Cc: pr <pr@g.o>, gentoo-dev <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] News Item: Desktop profile switching USE default to elogind
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2019 12:27:01
Message-Id: CAGfcS_=HmC9hF7Xna2y0T5K2OySUv8tiaZwj2-DXSP82U8SCLw@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] News Item: Desktop profile switching USE default to elogind by Andreas Sturmlechner
1 On Sun, Oct 27, 2019 at 10:19 PM Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@g.o> wrote:
2 >
3 > Enter the elogind project [2], which is a standalone logind implementation
4 > based on systemd code, currently maintained by a fellow Gentoo user.
5
6 A few minor comments:
7
8 1. While it is somewhat implicit in the headers, you might want to
9 mention in the text that this will not impact systemd profiles and
10 that those will just use logind. It is a natural question people will
11 end up asking anyway.
12
13 2. As evidenced in [1], many users probably have no idea what
14 consolekit, logind, or elogind actually do (or policykit/dbus and a
15 bunch of other modern desktop-oriented tooling that wasn't around back
16 when we were all editing X11 mode lines). You might want to just toss
17 in a sentence or two to explain that as background, since people are
18 going to worry especially with the dreaded s-word in there. Or find
19 some website that explains what it is reasonably well and link it with
20 a note in the text...
21
22 1 - https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-user/message/8dae2579be22c206d0f4bded84154f2d
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25 Rich