Re: External dependencies, DeviceKit-power and GNOME Power Manager

[Luis Medinas <lmedinas gnome org>]

On Tue, 2008-11-25 at 15:25 +0000, Richard Hughes wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-11-25 at 14:45 +0000, Luis Medinas wrote:
> > Not to mention just like Consolekit it requires some tweaking to work
> > on Linux distros. From what i remember lot's of distros like Debian
> > and Gentoo required some changes on HAL to get it working. Someone
> > from Gentoo please correct me but Consolekit isn't still working on
> > Gentoo.
> > So i would appreciate that these new projects get more feedback from
> > distributors and other OS like FreeBSD and Solaris. 
> 
> Right, but I need more than feedback from gentoo, FreeBSD and Solaris
> for these project, we need _code_. The days of easily being able to run
> a desktop GNOME instance without PackageKit, ConsoleKit, PolicyKit or
> DeviceKit are numbered, and it's important the people "doing something
> different" know that.
> 
PackageKit isn't still a problem for most distros or FreeBSD and Solaris
but Consolekit and Policykit is because it was heavily pushed to GNOME
without it's been supported by those distributors (same for hal a few
years ago) it's important to keep GNOME sane to run in most of
distributions or OS. Packagers have better things to do than porting
this stuff to their platforms.

Luis