On Thursday, 4 October 2018 14:40:57 BST gevisz wrote:
> чт, 4 окт. 2018 г. в 16:16, Holger Hoffstätte <holger@applied-
asynchrony.com>:
> > On Thu, 04 Oct 2018 16:09:51 +0300, gevisz wrote:
> > > I have just installed skypeforlinux-8.30.0.50.
> > > 
> > > After starting from command line, it successfully does nothing.
> > > I even do not get "permission denied" message.
> > 
> > https://bugs.gentoo.org/666396
> > 
> > For some reasons 8.30.x relies on elogind. Just emerge it
> > and it should work; it did for me.
> 
> It has worked for me. Thank you.

I've had the same symptom and I also do not have elogind installed.  If 
elogind is necessary, shouldn't it be specified in the ebuild as a dependency?  

Since I'm running console-kit, but not elogind, or systemd, couldn't skype be 
made to work with that instead?

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Regards,
Mick