On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 04:00:21PM -0000, Grant Edwards wrote
>
> Before I can try that, I apparently have to enable the elogind USE
> flag because of somthing else that changed since I sync'ed yesterday.
>
> That only requires 6 new packages (two of them are
> acct-{user,group}/polkitd, so it's only 4 new "real" packages. Of
> course every self-respecting package needs to install at least one new
> programming language -- this time it's dev-lang/spidermonkey. :/
>
> Sheesh.
According to news item
https://www.gentoo.org/support/news-items/2020-06-24-xorg-server-dropping-default-suid.html
* xorg-server will no longer be "suid" *BY DEFAULT*
* that means *THE DEFAULT* is to require a logind server like systemd
or elogind
The news item also says...
> Users who do not wish to use logind interface or have rare hardware
> that does not use KMS and because of that, require root privileges
> to operate, can manually re-enable 'suid' and disable 'elogind' USE
> flags in order to preserve the previous behavior. However, please
> note that this is heavily discouraged to run X server as root due
> to security reasons. The 'suid' USE flag will remain as optional
> opt-in for the need of legacy hardware.
I've set "x11-base/xorg-server glamor suid udev xorg" in package.use
and "-elogind" in make.conf, and no additional packages are required. I
used to start with USE="-*" but I don't do that anymore. Instead I use
USE="10bit X apng ffmpeg jpeg opengl png szip truetype x264 x265 xorg threads
webp -acl -arping -berkdb -bindist -caps -cracklib -crypt -elogind -filecaps
-gallium -gdbm -graphite -iconv -introspection -ipc -iptables -ipv6 -libav
-libglvnd -llvm -manpager -nls -openmp -pam -pch -sendmail -tcpd -udev -udisks
-unicode -xinerama"
--
Walter Dnes <[email protected]>
I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
