On Mon, 10 Sep 2012 16:31:28 -0500 Canek Peláez Valdés <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 4:19 PM, Chris Stankevitz > <[email protected]> wrote: > [snip] > > 1. Understand gudev, policykit, and consolekit and not be frightened > > of them (a tall order given the google results I am getting). Then > > enable the USE flags and install xfce4-meta > > FWIW, the idea behind gudev, polkit and (soon to be deprecated) > consolekit, is that you don't need to "understand" them; they should > "just work". In my experience, that is the case. It's my experience that most of the features (or something equivalent) offered by gudev, policykit and consolekit have to be present anyway for things to work at all. Where are these features? They are implemented in many various packages in many different ways (often poorly). It's a good idea to rip all of that out of the many places it's hiding and put one implementation in one place where it can be understood. Yes, these packages can be chatty. the lack of chattyness in other packages doesn't mean they don't attempt the same function, it just means they don't announce they do. dbus is similar. Whichever way code is written, some kind of IPC is going to be needed. It might as well be on a bus and it might as well be dbus. Now, if only way can get around to doing the same for regular expressions. last time I looked I had at least 5 implementations of regex, all different... -- Alan McKinnon [email protected]
