On Mon, 2019-04-01 at 01:23 +0200, Andreas Sturmlechner wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> We've had sys-auth/elogind available in Gentoo repo for quite a while now, 
> and 
> it seems to work fine for many people, as Plasma, Cinnamon, and the recently 
> added Gnome support have shown. In the last few days, elogind support was 
> also 
> brought to MATE and Xfce.
> 
> Meanwhile, sys-auth/consolekit is showing its age, with the upstream 
> repository not touched in more than a year. At least for Plasma and SDDM I am 
> aware of several paper cuts with it, that simply no one is bothering to fix 
> for 
> years, and it makes us depend on sys-power/pm-utils - which is really dead - 
> for suspend. Combine that with the ^^ ( elogind systemd ) requirement in 
> Cinnamon and Gnome, and it should be obvious that elogind is becoming the 
> better default setting.

And I would think that USE=systemd would be the obvious better default,
with more coverage than elogind :-P.

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny

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