On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 4:31 AM, <cov...@ccs.covici.com> wrote: > Canek Peláez Valdés <can...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 9:58 PM, <cov...@ccs.covici.com> wrote: >> [ snip ] >> > I have several things depending on consolekit: >> > >> > sys-auth/consolekit-0.4.5_p20120320-r2 pulled in by: >> > gnome-base/gnome-control-center-3.8.3 requires sys-auth/consolekit >> >> Dependency of gnome-control-center: >> >> || ( ( app-admin/openrc-settingsd sys-auth/consolekit ) >> >=sys-apps/systemd-31 ) >> >> > gnome-base/gnome-session-3.8.2.1-r1 requires sys-auth/consolekit >> >> gnome-session: >> >> systemd? ( >=sys-apps/systemd-183 ) >> !systemd? ( sys-auth/consolekit ) >> >> > gnome-base/gnome-shell-3.8.3-r1 requires sys-auth/consolekit >> >> gnome-shell: >> >> || ( sys-auth/consolekit >=sys-apps/systemd-31 ) >> >> > sys-apps/accountsservice-0.6.30 requires sys-auth/consolekit >> >> accountsservice: >> >> systemd? ( >=sys-apps/systemd-186 ) >> !systemd? ( sys-auth/consolekit )" >> >> > sys-auth/pambase-20120417-r2 requires >> >> pambase: >> >> consolekit? ( >=sys-auth/consolekit-0.4.5_p2012[pam] ) >> systemd? ( >=sys-apps/systemd-44-r1[pam] ) >> >> >> > >=sys-auth/consolekit-0.4.5_p2012[pam] >> >> consolekit obviously doesn't depend on itself. >> >> > sys-auth/polkit-0.111 requires sys-auth/consolekit[policykit] >> >> polkit: >> >> pam? ( >> systemd? ( sys-auth/pambase[systemd] ) >> !systemd? ( sys-auth/pambase[consolekit] ) >> ) >> >> In other words, *ALL* of these packages can use systemd instead of >> consolekit (and in the case of pambase, both at the same time). And, >> as Mark already linked[1]: "ConsoleKit is currently not actively >> maintained. The focus has shifted to the built-in seat/user/session >> management of Software/systemd called systemd-loginctl", I would not >> really count on these packages supporting CK in the future. > > So, this implies if I want to keep using gnome then systemd is required, > or use another desktop. That is something to think about.
Or you could, you know, try it. If you don't like it, you change DE and get back to OpenRC. Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
