[gentoo-dev] desktop profile: Switch make.defaults to +elogind, drop consolekit

[gentoo-dev] desktop profile: Switch make.defaults to +elogind, drop consolekit

[Andreas Sturmlechner]

Hi,

We've had sys-auth/elogind available in Gentoo repo for quite a while now, and 
it seems to work fine for many people, as Plasma, Cinnamon, and the recently 
added Gnome support have shown. In the last few days, elogind support was also 
brought to MATE and Xfce.

Meanwhile, sys-auth/consolekit is showing its age, with the upstream 
repository not touched in more than a year. At least for Plasma and SDDM I am 
aware of several paper cuts with it, that simply no one is bothering to fix for 
years, and it makes us depend on sys-power/pm-utils - which is really dead - 
for suspend. Combine that with the ^^ ( elogind systemd ) requirement in 
Cinnamon and Gnome, and it should be obvious that elogind is becoming the 
better default setting.

Also, with that change we can really start to think about xorg-server[-suid] 
default (again).

Here's the original elogind integration tracker:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=elogind-support

A new tracker has been set up for +elogind revdep stabilisation:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=elogind-default

So now is the time for maintainers of packages depending on sys-auth/
consolekit to check for any work to do, and test migration.

Best regards,
Andreas

Re: [gentoo-dev] desktop profile: Switch make.defaults to +elogind, drop consolekit

[Michał Górny]

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On Mon, 2019-04-01 at 01:23 +0200, Andreas Sturmlechner wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> We've had sys-auth/elogind available in Gentoo repo for quite a while now, and 
> it seems to work fine for many people, as Plasma, Cinnamon, and the recently 
> added Gnome support have shown. In the last few days, elogind support was also 
> brought to MATE and Xfce.
> 
> Meanwhile, sys-auth/consolekit is showing its age, with the upstream 
> repository not touched in more than a year. At least for Plasma and SDDM I am 
> aware of several paper cuts with it, that simply no one is bothering to fix for 
> years, and it makes us depend on sys-power/pm-utils - which is really dead - 
> for suspend. Combine that with the ^^ ( elogind systemd ) requirement in 
> Cinnamon and Gnome, and it should be obvious that elogind is becoming the 
> better default setting.

And I would think that USE=systemd would be the obvious better default,
with more coverage than elogind :-P.

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Best regards,
Michał Górny


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Re: [gentoo-dev] desktop profile: Switch make.defaults to +elogind, drop consolekit

[Andreas Sturmlechner]

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On Montag, 1. April 2019 01:23:17 CET Andreas Sturmlechner wrote:
> We've had sys-auth/elogind available in Gentoo repo for quite a while now,
> and it seems to work fine for many people, as Plasma, Cinnamon, and the
> recently added Gnome support have shown. 

...

> Also, with that change we can really start to think about xorg-server[-suid]
> default (again).
> 
> Here's the original elogind integration tracker:
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=elogind-support
> 
> A new tracker has been set up for +elogind revdep stabilisation:
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=elogind-default

I think it is time to finally move on with this. I'm going to write up a news 
item, do the usual review, then publish at the same time as switching the 
desktop profile make.defaults. Does that sound about right?

> So now is the time for maintainers of packages depending on sys-auth/
> consolekit to check for any work to do, and test migration.

Assuming everyone have made their packages ready?

Regards,
Andreas

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