> > If you don't need user session monitoring for anything (which is what > > ConsoleKit and logind provides), nor interactive privilege granting > > (which is what polkit provides), then I believe you will have no > > Thanks. Now *that* is what I call explaining something in a nutshell :-) > > > problems switching OpenRC and systemd withouth needing to recompile > > anything. However, that means no upower and no udisks at least; GNOME > > cannot run without any of those. XFCE needs them if the udev USE flag > > is enabled, which is enabled by default in Gentoo desktop profiles, > > and in KDE the three of them are optional dependencies turned on by > > default. You can turn them of in XFCE and KDE, but you kinda lose > > functionality without them. > > I do indeed remember having to fight the KDE use flags so that I could > pull kdelibs without pulling the whole set of u* things someone decided > that were required for a desktop environment (the fun thing being that I > wasn't even using KDE as a DE). > > But I hope you don't mean the GNOME *libs* will be requiring > logind/Consolekit/... in the near future? That would cause me some > trouble, as I rely on evince a lot.
A good overview though I don't agree with "If you don't 'need'" Did your desktop really fail to run at all? Why are dependencies suddenly getting a lot worse (ignoring konquerorFM without kde) when for so long dependencies were understood to be a big problem that must be fixed. It can only be bad design if a desktop does not work at all because < 1% of the functionality is missing and may well have been replaced in every case above by alternative and in some cases superior (permissions) that may override others (sessions you don't use), choices of functionality. Is it really a freedesktop when almost all the rest are free-er? -- _______________________________________________________________________ 'Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface' (Doug McIlroy) _______________________________________________________________________
