Re: Anyone going to be using ConsoleKit for 3.16 ?

[Koop Mast <kwm rainbow-runner nl>]

On Fri, 2015-01-30 at 23:10 +0100, Antoine Jacoutot wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 02:25:20PM -0500, Ray Strode wrote:
> > Hey,
> >
> > I'm wondering if there are distros/platforms that are planning on 
> > using 3.16 and ConsoleKit together.
> >
> > I know there's LoginKit, systemd-shim and systembsd now that try 
> > to provide logind compatible interfaces for non-systemd systems, 
> > so I'd really like to get rid of the ConsoleKit code in GDM.
> > The code is complicated and not really tested.
> >
> > I'm leaning toward getting rid of it in 3.16 (versus say 3.18). 
> > Distros, of course, could ship a patch to reverse to removal if 
> > necessary, so I don't think doing it for 3.16 should be too 
> > controversial, but I wanted to shoot a mail first anyway to gauge 
> > the reaction.
>
> Hi Ray.
>
> Thanks a lot asking about this.
> OpenBSD *will* keep using ConsoleKit for 3.16. I expect that we 
> should be able to be rid of it for 3.18 -- either using systembsd 
> (far from ready) or the logind implementation that ConsoleKit2 is 
> expected to provide iirc or ... something else.
> There are several other components of GNOME that still have "some" 
> ConsoleKit support (at least in 3.14) and I would not mind removing 
> such support for 3.16 if and only if reverting the removal is easy 
> and not too intrusive.
> Not that I have a big say about it but...

Hello Ray,

FreeBSD will also be using ConsoleKit for 3.16. Antoine pretty much 
said everything that goes for us already.

-Koop