On Mon, 2 Aug 2021 22:15:31 +1000, wirelessduck--- wrote in message <[email protected]>:
> > On 2 Aug 2021, at 19:02, Mark Hindley <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Yes it can be, but no more so than consolekit. There are 2 > > alternatives for managing seats and sessions in Devuan: consolekit > > (actually consolekit2) and elogind. > > > > Consolekit was probably the default in ascii. It is inactive > > upstream, but still works. Elogind is active and well supported > > and is the default since beowulf. However, the codebase derives > > from systemd and therefore some people will prefer not to use it. > > > > So, you need one or other, but not both or a mixture. > > > > aptitude seems to suggest that you already have elogind installed > > and this is an upgrade. You will have to allow apt to remove the > > consolekit related packages (libpam-ck-connector and possibly some > > policykit libraries). Alternatively, stick with consolekit and > > remove all of the elogind related packages. The choice is yours. > > Both will work once you have a clean installation based on a single > > logind alternative. > > > > Mark > > Is seatd likely to get anywhere in the next Debian development cycle > after bullseye/chimaera? ..I guess not, unless Debian dumps systemd: https://git.sr.ht/~kennylevinsen/seatd > Would this allow us to just need only one option for users to install? > ..we should probably do our own packaging of this, and much more, chk output of: how-can-i-help --old |less ..103 packages due to be kicked out now, many of these were left behind by DD leaving since the systemd coup... arnt@d44:~$ how-can-i-help --old |grephttps://tracker.debian.org/pkg/ \ |cut -d" " -f5 |sort |uniq |wc -l 103 ..more details in: apt-cache show $(how-can-i-help --old |grep \ https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/ |cut -d" " -f3 |sort |uniq ) |less ..806 since I began capturing said sad output into my own list. arnt@d44:~$ cat how-can-I-help |grep https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/ \ |cut -d" " -f5 |sort |uniq |wc -l 806 arnt@d44:~$ -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
