On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 9:59 PM, Nathan Coulson <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
sorry, sent prematurely. Just ignore that last line. -- 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
