On Tue, 2008-11-25 at 15:25 +0000, Richard Hughes wrote: > On Tue, 2008-11-25 at 14:45 +0000, Luis Medinas wrote: > > Not to mention just like Consolekit it requires some tweaking to work > > on Linux distros. From what i remember lot's of distros like Debian > > and Gentoo required some changes on HAL to get it working. Someone > > from Gentoo please correct me but Consolekit isn't still working on > > Gentoo. > > So i would appreciate that these new projects get more feedback from > > distributors and other OS like FreeBSD and Solaris. > > Right, but I need more than feedback from gentoo, FreeBSD and Solaris > for these project, we need _code_. The days of easily being able to run > a desktop GNOME instance without PackageKit, ConsoleKit, PolicyKit or > DeviceKit are numbered, and it's important the people "doing something > different" know that. > PackageKit isn't still a problem for most distros or FreeBSD and Solaris but Consolekit and Policykit is because it was heavily pushed to GNOME without it's been supported by those distributors (same for hal a few years ago) it's important to keep GNOME sane to run in most of distributions or OS. Packagers have better things to do than porting this stuff to their platforms.
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