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

["Michał Górny" <mgorny@gentoo.org>]

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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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