The authors of systemd (RedHat's rough equivalent of SMF) have decided that systemd should replace ConsoleKit:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2011-May/002166.html They're even being upfront by stating they will not support non-Linux. Given that Ubuntu has it's own equivalent (upstart) and not all other Linux distros have chosen systemd, it will be interesting to see if this gets more pushback than those who killed HAL & DeviceKit, since it won't just be BSD & Solaris they're telling to go ***** themselves this time, but a significant number of other Linux distros too. Perhaps the real lesson learned is that any *Kit API that claims to provide a platform neutral abstraction is doomed to abandonment as overly complex and hairy once it gets adopted widely enough to have been ported to all the platforms, and it's not worth the headache trying to keep up. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System _______________________________________________ desktop-discuss mailing list desktop-discuss@opensolaris.org
