[Mageia-dev] Removing ConsoleKit

Fri Oct 19 11:38:59 CEST 2012

'Twas brillig, and JA Magallón at 19/10/12 00:24 did gyre and gimble:
+> Hi...
+> 
+> As this page reads
+> 
+> http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/ConsoleKit
+> 
+> CK is not maintaned anymore, it is deprecated.
+> 
+> We can not remove the packages because of dependencies:
+> 
+> werewolf:~# urpmq --whatrequires consolekit consolekit-x11 lib64consolekit0
+> accountsservice
+> consolekit
+> consolekit-x11
+> elsa
+> kdm
+> lib64consolekit-devel
+> lib64consolekit0
+> lxdm
+> polkit
+> slim
+> xinit
+> 
+> but in the meantime I have disabled it completely following this:
+> http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=246130
+> 
+> and disabling it in systemctl.
+> 
+> Everything seems to work fine, I have noticed no problem.
+> Will it be possible to build the above packages without CK support and
+> with systemd-enabled options it they are there ?
+> So mga3 will be a CK-free edition ;)
+
+It would certainly be nice!
+
+I'm not 100% sure the various DMs can be built without consolekit
+support easily, but I don't think it's super problematic to rip it out
+in a patch. If there is specific consolekit support in the DMs then it
+will likely need to be replaced with logind support. I know there are
+patches for some of them if we don't include it by default.
+
+Col
+
+
+
+
+-- 
+
+Colin Guthrie
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