On Sat, Dec 15, 2018 at 09:00:01PM -0600, DJ Lucas via blfs-dev wrote: > > So, what that ultimately can get us if included in BLFS (not LFS) is the > following: drop CK2 and pm-utils (these shouldn't be needed on minimal > servers), rootless Xorg - which should be in systemd anyway > (--enable-suid-wrapper should go unless there are other issues with > that, but I'm unaware of any at this point), all sessions are managed > whether ssdm or manual (mis-behaving processes don't hang out after the > user session is gone - also, is kdm still a thing, can probably bring > that back too if so), consistent automounting of hotplugged storage > devices, full Gnome dependencies are now met on SysV so full Gnome comes > back, a v2 cgroup manager is provided on SysV (albeit rudimentary, but > opposed to v1 only with CK2), and some of the divergence between the two > BLFS books can be eliminated outright. > A question about dropping pm-utils: as I replied on -support a few days ago, my desktops variously have suspend (if a PS/2 keyboard) and/or hibernate, using xbindkeys to allow an identified key to trigger the action [ at one time I had a keyboard with a sleep key, but like most modern hardware, that broke, so now I use F12 for sleep and/or F11 for hibernate ], with sudo and pm-utils.
That works with icewm and fluxbox, and also with xfce the last time I tested that. What will I be able to use in the absence of pm-utils ? Dropping the suid wrapper for Xorg sounds good, if nothing breaks. ĸen -- I'm saving up 22 shillings and 10 pence (almost a pound!) per week to buy an ARM-13. http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2018/11/brexit-means-brexit.html -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
