Package: tasksel Version: 2.75 Severity: minor Hi,
a standard GNOME or KDE desktop installs tools like gnome-power-manager, kpowersave and network-manager-(gnome|kde). This tools are used for powermanagement and network configuration and they access HAL and NetworkManager via D-Bus. Historically, Debian used group based policies, to allow access to those services, i.e. in order to mount removable media, suspend/hibernate your laptop or configure your (wireless) network, you had to be in the groups plugdev, powerdev and netdev. As (co-)maintainer of packages like kpowersave, experience over the last year has shown, that this approach has it's downsides. A lot of users complained that basic stuff like suspend does not work out-of-the-box [1], only to learn that they have to add their users to the above mentioned groups. For unexperienced users this can be quite challenging and unintuitive. A alternative approach has been implemented using consolekit. When this package is installed, it allows access to the HAL and NetworkManager service using the at_console policy, i.e. all locally logged in users can access the D-Bus services without the need to add them to all the different groups. You can still configure access via groups, this new methods is complementary. For a better out-of-the-box experience I'd like to see consolekit installed by default as part of the desktop and/or laptop task in lenny. Thanks for considering, Michael [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=484248 -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (300, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26.3 Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages tasksel depends on: ii aptitude 0.4.11.9-1 terminal-based package manager ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.23 Debian configuration management sy ii liblocale-gettext-perl 1.05-4 Using libc functions for internati ii tasksel-data 2.75 Official tasks used for installati tasksel recommends no packages. tasksel suggests no packages. -- debconf information: tasksel/title: tasksel/desktop: gnome tasksel/first: tasksel/tasks: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
