Canek Peláez Valdés <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 9:58 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
> [ snip ]
> > I have several things depending on consolekit:
> >
> > sys-auth/consolekit-0.4.5_p20120320-r2 pulled in by:
> > gnome-base/gnome-control-center-3.8.3 requires sys-auth/consolekit
>
> Dependency of gnome-control-center:
>
> || ( ( app-admin/openrc-settingsd sys-auth/consolekit )
> >=sys-apps/systemd-31 )
>
> > gnome-base/gnome-session-3.8.2.1-r1 requires sys-auth/consolekit
>
> gnome-session:
>
> systemd? ( >=sys-apps/systemd-183 )
> !systemd? ( sys-auth/consolekit )
>
> > gnome-base/gnome-shell-3.8.3-r1 requires sys-auth/consolekit
>
> gnome-shell:
>
> || ( sys-auth/consolekit >=sys-apps/systemd-31 )
>
> > sys-apps/accountsservice-0.6.30 requires sys-auth/consolekit
>
> accountsservice:
>
> systemd? ( >=sys-apps/systemd-186 )
> !systemd? ( sys-auth/consolekit )"
>
> > sys-auth/pambase-20120417-r2 requires
>
> pambase:
>
> consolekit? ( >=sys-auth/consolekit-0.4.5_p2012[pam] )
> systemd? ( >=sys-apps/systemd-44-r1[pam] )
>
>
> > >=sys-auth/consolekit-0.4.5_p2012[pam]
>
> consolekit obviously doesn't depend on itself.
>
> > sys-auth/polkit-0.111 requires sys-auth/consolekit[policykit]
>
> polkit:
>
> pam? (
> systemd? ( sys-auth/pambase[systemd] )
> !systemd? ( sys-auth/pambase[consolekit] )
> )
>
> In other words, *ALL* of these packages can use systemd instead of
> consolekit (and in the case of pambase, both at the same time). And,
> as Mark already linked[1]: "ConsoleKit is currently not actively
> maintained. The focus has shifted to the built-in seat/user/session
> management of Software/systemd called systemd-loginctl", I would not
> really count on these packages supporting CK in the future.
So, this implies if I want to keep using gnome then systemd is required,
or use another desktop. That is something to think about.
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