On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 6:48 PM, Randy McMurchy <[email protected]> wrote: > g if this subject has been discussed > and I missed the discussion. I am curious about BLFS' view on the obsolete > and deprecated package ConsoleKit. ConsoleKit is listed as a dependency for > several BLFS packages, and recommended for at least one package. The issue > is the package is unmaintained.
Not a consolekit user here, so apologies if I'm completely wrong. If it has been depreciated and unmaintained, Ideally we would want packages to target it's replacement. Looks like systemd-loginctl is it's replacement. http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/ConsoleKit. (and currently we do not use systemd in the book). Based on that, I'd recommend keeping it unless it's a maintenance burden on us, or it's no longer "useful" for the required packages. Just like GTK+2 replaced GTK+1, when all the packages moved over, and I imagine GTK+3 will eventually supplant GTK+2 If it's required for a package, or optional for many packages, -- Nathan Coulson (conathan) ------ Location: British Columbia, Canada Timezone: PST (-8) Webpage: http://www.nathancoulson.com -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
