On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 7:29 PM tastytea <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 2020-04-14T19:16+0100 > Jorge Almeida <[email protected]> wrote: >
> > "Use elogind to get control over framebuffer when running as regular > > user" > > > > Could someone explain what this entails? What happened before this USE > > variable was created? What will I miss if I disable it? > > ConsoleKit2 is unmaintained, elogind is the replacement. If you don't > use systemd, read `eselect news read new` or > <https://www.gentoo.org/support/news-items/2020-04-14-elogind-default.html>. > OK, I get it. I don't use ConsoleKit2, and I have "-consolekit" in make.conf, so it's just a matter of adding "-elogind" to make.conf. I understand why suddenly updating world wanted to pull PAM. What I still would like to understand is what are the consequences of [not] enabling this stuff regarding xorg-server. What kind of control over the framebuffer is meant by the USE description quoted above? Thanks Jorge
