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On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 04:00:21PM -0000, Grant Edwards wrote |
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> Before I can try that, I apparently have to enable the elogind USE |
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> flag because of somthing else that changed since I sync'ed yesterday. |
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> That only requires 6 new packages (two of them are |
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> acct-{user,group}/polkitd, so it's only 4 new "real" packages. Of |
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> course every self-respecting package needs to install at least one new |
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> programming language -- this time it's dev-lang/spidermonkey. :/ |
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> Sheesh. |
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According to news item https://www.gentoo.org/support/news-items/2020-06-24-xorg-server-dropping-default-suid.html |
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* xorg-server will no longer be "suid" *BY DEFAULT* |
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* that means *THE DEFAULT* is to require a logind server like systemd |
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or elogind |
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The news item also says... |
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> Users who do not wish to use logind interface or have rare hardware |
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> that does not use KMS and because of that, require root privileges |
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> to operate, can manually re-enable 'suid' and disable 'elogind' USE |
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> flags in order to preserve the previous behavior. However, please |
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> note that this is heavily discouraged to run X server as root due |
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> to security reasons. The 'suid' USE flag will remain as optional |
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> opt-in for the need of legacy hardware. |
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I've set "x11-base/xorg-server glamor suid udev xorg" in package.use |
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and "-elogind" in make.conf, and no additional packages are required. I |
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used to start with USE="-*" but I don't do that anymore. Instead I use |
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USE="10bit X apng ffmpeg jpeg opengl png szip truetype x264 x265 xorg threads webp -acl -arping -berkdb -bindist -caps -cracklib -crypt -elogind -filecaps -gallium -gdbm -graphite -iconv -introspection -ipc -iptables -ipv6 -libav -libglvnd -llvm -manpager -nls -openmp -pam -pch -sendmail -tcpd -udev -udisks -unicode -xinerama" |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications |