Re: [gentoo-user] systemd - are we forced to switch?

[Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@gentoo.org>]

On 23/07/13 09:11, András Csányi wrote:
> On 22 July 2013 21:57, Michael Hampicke <mh@hadt.biz> wrote:
>> Am 22.07.2013 17:02, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés:
>>> ConsoleKit  is for all practical purposes unmaintained, and all of the
>>> packages you mentioned it support systemd just fine. Emerge systemd,
>>> and purge CK from your system; I did that almost a year ago.
>>>
>>
>> Thanks, just purged consolekit from my system after setting
>> USE="-consolekit" and remerged the affected packages.
>
> Do you have systemd enabled? I mean USE="systemd".
>
> What is going to happen if my system does not have consolekit?

What do you mean?
ConsoleKit is used mainly to recognize if you are a local user or not.

If you don't have ConsoleKit OR systemd-logind, then nothing will 
recognize you are a local user and anything using PolicyKit like for 
example, networkmanager or your desktop's shutdown/restart 
functionality, or automounting by file manager, won't succeed without 
root password because then nothing is telling PolicyKit the user is 
local and fallback to root is applied.

For example, if you don't have sys-auth/consolekit installed then 
xfce-base/xfce4-session will fallback to using `sudo` for authorization 
on shutdown/reboot
But some functionality have no fallback like this at all, so if aiming 
for systemd-less and ConsoleKit-less system, you have to know what is 
what...

I hope that clarifies instead of complicates :P