ConsoleKit 0.2.4

William Jon McCann mccann at jhu.edu
Wed Jan 23 17:36:09 PST 2008


Hi Danny,

On Jan 23, 2008 4:07 PM, Danny Kukawka <danny.kukawka at web.de> wrote:
> On Mittwoch, 23. Januar 2008, Michael Biebl wrote:
> > 2008/1/23, William Jon McCann <mccann at jhu.edu>:
> > > A new ConsoleKit release is available.
> >
> > [..]
> >
> > > system restart/stop support.
> >
> > tbh, I find it very strange, that this kind of functionality is in
> > ConsoleKit. I'd rather that CK remains as simple as possible and only
> > provides user/session tracking.
> >
> > This also creates a very "nice" dependency loop:
> > CK depending on PolicyKit and PolicyKit depending on CK. Not good.
>
> Yes, this sound like a really bad idea and would be a reason to not use this
> version of CK on SUSE to avoid a lot of trouble ...

There is no loop.  Please see my reply to Michael.

Jon


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