[Mageia-dev] Removing ConsoleKit

Fri Oct 19 12:43:28 CEST 2012

'Twas brillig, and Olav Vitters at 19/10/12 11:17 did gyre and gimble:
+> Colin gave a +1 on this
+
+Might as well do it now before the final alpha after all!
+
+So some things that might break here are:
+ 1. Any xinit scripts that call ck-xinit-session unconditionally
+assuming it will be there. I think most of the ones I've seen do this
+conditionally, but it's worth checking.
+
+ 2. Apps which might use CK via dbus to do things differently in UIs.
+Normally this is done indirectly via polkit so it shouldn't be too big a
+deal, but keep your eyes open.
+
+ 3. KDM: There are various systemd related patches in Fedora. If I get
+the change I'll go through these and apply them to our packages, but
+someone is welcome to beat me to it!
+http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/kde-workspace.git/tree/
+
+
+Most startx related issues should be minimal as UI stuff (permission to
+shutdown, reboot etc) uses polkit and that, in turn, uses systemd for a
+while now.
+
+Device permissions should be 100% handled by systemd+logind these days
+so shouldn't really be affected. udev-acl has not been installed for
+ages so that should be fine. Any udev rules with the TAG+="udev-acl"
+should be updated as this tag is redundant now. It *might* make sense to
+replace such rules with TAG+="uaccess", but this should be thought about
+carefully - it's normally a "private" tag to the core package, but there
+are occasions when it's correct to use it in third party rules too.
+
+
+Happy testing :)
+
+Col
+
+
+-- 
+
+Colin Guthrie
+colin(at)mageia.org
+http://colin.guthr.ie/
+
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