Hi all, My apologies right here at the beginning if this subject has been discussed and I missed the discussion. I am curious about BLFS' view on the obsolete and deprecated package ConsoleKit. ConsoleKit is listed as a dependency for several BLFS packages, and recommended for at least one package. The issue is the package is unmaintained.
We (BLFS) list ConsoleKit in the "Security" section of the book. It would seem to me that packages in the "Security" section would have a solid base behind it, and the package would be looked at closely. However, because ConsoleKit is now abandoned, deprecated, and apparently has been replaced by the systemd package (which BLFS doesn't support), it seems that this would be a security hole. I am not saying that the current BLFS situation with ConsoleKit is a security hole, I am just saying that it could turn in to one. I would like a discussion about the future of our direction toward the ConsoleKit deprecation, and the apparent move by most other distribution's move toward systemd. If anyone is interested in discussion, I encourage your participation. -- Randy rmlscsi: [bogomips 1003.23] [GNU ld version 2.16.1] [gcc (GCC) 4.0.3] [GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.6] [Linux 2.6.14.3 i686] 20:35:00 up 44 days, 6:34, 1 user, load average: 0.78, 0.26, 0.08 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
