On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 2:04 AM, András Csányi <sayusi.a...@sayusi.hu> wrote:
> On 23 July 2013 08:54, Nikos Chantziaras <rea...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 23/07/13 08:43, Samuli Suominen wrote:
>>>
>>> On 23/07/13 00:46, Mark David Dumlao wrote:
>>>>
>>>> This would be a lot less of an issue if someone just wrote a logind
>>>> ebuild (wink wink) that provides consolekit like it was originally
>>>> intended.
>>>
>>>
>>> not possible, logind since systemd >= 205 requires systemd and won't
>>> work on openrc, upstart, and such
>>> as in, the idea of using logind outside of systemd is a dead end
>>>
>>> so keeping ConsoleKit in portage for long as it works for long as we
>>> need openrc for Linux based systems
>>> and when it no longer works, the contingency plan is to ship vendor
>>> based polkit files that possibly either restore 'plugdev' group or
>>> provide similar groups to ArchLinux like 'network', 'storage', 'power'
>>> to split up the old 'plugdev'
>>
>>
>> Wouldn't it be better to switch to systemd instead?
>
> Is there a migration guide? According to google there is no any. (or I
> haven't spend enough time to search)

You have the wiki:

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Systemd

I believe it covers the most important aspects of the migration. Also,
it is so much easier now; we even have a stable version on systemd in
the tree.

Regards.
--
Canek Peláez Valdés
Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

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