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- To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
- Subject: tasksel: Please add consolekit to the desktop task
- From: Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>
- Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 02:50:18 +0200
- Message-id: <20080827005018.7758.89123.reportbug@pluto.milchstrasse.xx>
Package: tasksel Version: 2.75 Severity: minor Hi, a standard GNOME or KDE desktop installs tools like gnome-power-manager, kpowersave and network-manager-(gnome|kde). This tools are used for powermanagement and network configuration and they access HAL and NetworkManager via D-Bus. Historically, Debian used group based policies, to allow access to those services, i.e. in order to mount removable media, suspend/hibernate your laptop or configure your (wireless) network, you had to be in the groups plugdev, powerdev and netdev. As (co-)maintainer of packages like kpowersave, experience over the last year has shown, that this approach has it's downsides. A lot of users complained that basic stuff like suspend does not work out-of-the-box [1], only to learn that they have to add their users to the above mentioned groups. For unexperienced users this can be quite challenging and unintuitive. A alternative approach has been implemented using consolekit. When this package is installed, it allows access to the HAL and NetworkManager service using the at_console policy, i.e. all locally logged in users can access the D-Bus services without the need to add them to all the different groups. You can still configure access via groups, this new methods is complementary. For a better out-of-the-box experience I'd like to see consolekit installed by default as part of the desktop and/or laptop task in lenny. Thanks for considering, Michael [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=484248 -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (300, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26.3 Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages tasksel depends on: ii aptitude 0.4.11.9-1 terminal-based package manager ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.23 Debian configuration management sy ii liblocale-gettext-perl 1.05-4 Using libc functions for internati ii tasksel-data 2.75 Official tasks used for installati tasksel recommends no packages. tasksel suggests no packages. -- debconf information: tasksel/title: tasksel/desktop: gnome tasksel/first: tasksel/tasks:
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- To: 496723-done@bugs.debian.org
- Subject: consolekit in desktop tasks
- From: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
- Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2010 14:29:13 -0400
- Message-id: <20101206182913.GA19515@gnu.kitenet.net>
AIUI, consolekit is now included in the desktop tasks where applicable by the desktop metapackages. So there should be no need to hack it into tasksel. -- see shy joAttachment: signature.asc
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