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Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian



Le mardi 24 juin 2014 à 19:57 +0200, Svante Signell a écrit :
> Are there any chances that some version of policykit-1 could stay free
> from any *systemd* dependency? 

PolicyKit needs a session tracking mechanism, and with ConsoleKit no
longer maintained, the only one available is systemd-logind.

So unless you become upstream for both *kit projects, the answer to your
question is “no”.

> I strongly recommend the systemd-must-die package to prevent systemd
> components being installed when dist-upgrading without the user being
> aware.

Do you realize how many new software components are installed when
dist-upgrading without the user being aware?
Are you going to recommend a $package-must-die for each of them?

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