[LightDM] ConsoleKit support plans

[Guido Berhoerster]

* Robert Ancell <robert.ancell at gmail.com> [2013-05-20 01:00]:
> Hi all,
> 
> With LightDM 1.7.0 we now support logind (i.e. systemd) and no longer
> require ConsoleKit. Ubuntu 13.10 will use logind instead of ConsoleKit and
> was one of the last distributions that I know of to switch.
> 
> The question is, how long do we need to support ConsoleKit in LightDM? I'll
> definitely keep it supported in 1.8, but for the following release (1.10 I
> guess) do we need it? It's not hard to keep running due to the regression
> tests, but I'd like to drop it if no-one still uses it.
> 
> If you are using LightDM and ConsoleKit (or know others who are) please
> reply here so we know who needs it and for how long.

Without ConsoleKit support LightDM would be de-facto Linux-only.
I know of a recent effort to get it into FreeBSD ports [1] and
there seems to be some initiative in pkgsrc as well[2] though I
don't know the status of that. A while ago Brian Cameron seems to
have evaluated it for use in Solaris resulting in [3] but I don't
think it ever worked and I'm not aware of any efforts of
Illumos-based distributions interested in porting it. I don't
speak for any of them, just pointing out something to be aware
of.


[1] https://redports.org/browser/Partmedia/x11/lightdm
[2] http://pkgsrc.se/wip/lightdm
[3] http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/lightdm/2011-November/000188.html
    https://hg.openindiana.org/upstream/spec-files-extra/file/76f9f89251ff/trunk/SFElightdm.spec
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Guido Berhoerster