ConsoleKit
Now that ConsoleKit has been deprecated/abandoned by its upstream I guess
this makes it extremely likely that it will soon turn into garbage/bitrot,
very similar to the HAL experience (it seems we already had a taste of things
to come in #570015...).
I've been trying to figure out what ConsoleKit is good for. If we get a clear
idea of that (which I currently don't have myself), maybe we can determine if
it's worthwhile to support it, or if it's just easier to patch lightdm and kdm
to stop using it (they'll most likely stop making CK a mandatory dependency
anyway, even if we don't request it).
Unless I missed something (please correct me if I'm wrong), ConsoleKit is
useful for two things:
1- Mult-seat setup
Turns out multi-seat is a no-go for us because keyboard input is exclusively
grabbed by syscons and multiplexed into /dev/kbdmux, /dev/console and /dev/ttyv*.
So I don't think anyone managed to setup a working multi-seat environment on
Debian GNU/kFreeBSD. It's clear we don't currently support it (maybe we could,
I'm just not sure what it would involve).
2- Fast-user-switching
I have no idea whether this works or not. Does anyone here use this feature?
It doesn't sound like a killer feature in any case...
3- Is there anything else?
--
Robert Millan
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