[Mageia-dev] Deprecating startx

Wed Mar 7 17:20:32 CET 2012

'Twas brillig, and Zézinho at 07/03/12 15:32 did gyre and gimble:
+> Em 07-03-2012 10:26, Colin Guthrie escreveu:
+>> Hi,
+>>
+>> Unless someone comes along and does a reasonable amount of coding before
+>> mga2, I think we'll have to deprecate supporting startx (it can still be
+>> used in some circumstances, but audio and accelerated graphics will not
+>> be available).
+>>
+>>
+> Now I know where the same problem with autologin comes from ;-)
+
+Kinda, but really the autologin package should do the whole pam
+conversation stuff itself, so it *should* be possible to make that work.
+
+> I suppose using sysvinit allows to still use startx and autologin, so I
+> will work at least without systemd.
+
+For the time being, we will still support sysvinit and console-kit.
+Using console-kit will still work (although various caveats are still
+present in the way that console-kit "tracks" sessions (clue: It really
+doesn't do any tracking at all!).
+
+> Maybe we could only add this information to the Errata, along with an
+> howto use sysvinit?
+
+I'd rather not. We want people to use systemd by default and while
+sysvinit will still limp on in mga2 it's definitely going to be a second
+class citizen.
+
+> If I followed things well, upgrades from MGA1 will continue using
+> sysvinit, so people won't get this regression on upgrades?
+
+No, they will get systemd. We just need to resolve an issue with the
+upgrade to make this happen properly (could be a urpmi bug or something
+similar).
+
+Col
+
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+
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