On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 05:58:16PM +0000, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > > > > E.g. XFCE either wants ConsoleKit, or logind. If you look at ConsoleKit, > > > > you'll notice it is NOT maintained. > > > > > > XFCE *needs* neither and in fact the vast vast majority of users do > > > not either. > > > > I check the spec files for Fedora, Mageia, openSUSE. They all seem to > > require logind. For Arch, seems as well, but not sure (difficult to > > verify). For Debian it is a recommends. > > > > So all the systemd using Distro's! > > How about Gentoo, Slackware, LFS and many many others? > > > Needs neither seems to be true based on the recommends, but "vast > > majority" seems incorrect. I do wonder what breaks though :P > > By vast majority I was meaning user requirements and not distro > packagers expectations, user requirements is actually the metric which > should count the most and most users do not need session tracking, it > can actually get in the way (one user using many logins, shutdown, usb > access etc.).
You said vast vast majority, you do the work! At the moment it seems you're just changing goalpost as you go along. I don't play such games. I showed I did research on what I understood. If you are so sure about the needs of the "vast vast majority", it is up to *you* to show proof. I'm not interested though. -- Regards, Olav -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20131028190319.gd25...@bkor.dhs.org
