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On Mon, 10 Sep 2012 16:31:28 -0500 |
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Canek Peláez Valdés <caneko@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 4:19 PM, Chris Stankevitz |
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> <chrisstankevitz@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> [snip] |
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> > 1. Understand gudev, policykit, and consolekit and not be frightened |
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> > of them (a tall order given the google results I am getting). Then |
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> > enable the USE flags and install xfce4-meta |
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> FWIW, the idea behind gudev, polkit and (soon to be deprecated) |
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> consolekit, is that you don't need to "understand" them; they should |
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> "just work". In my experience, that is the case. |
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It's my experience that most of the features (or something |
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equivalent) offered by gudev, policykit and consolekit have to be |
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present anyway for things to work at all. Where are these features? |
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They are implemented in many various packages in many different ways |
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(often poorly). |
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It's a good idea to rip all of that out of the many places it's hiding |
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and put one implementation in one place where it can be understood. |
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Yes, these packages can be chatty. the lack of chattyness in other |
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packages doesn't mean they don't attempt the same function, it just |
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means they don't announce they do. |
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dbus is similar. Whichever way code is written, some kind of IPC is |
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going to be needed. It might as well be on a bus and it might as well be |
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dbus. |
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Now, if only way can get around to doing the same for regular |
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expressions. last time I looked I had at least 5 implementations of |
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regex, all different... |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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