On 10/15/2014 at 04:08 AM, Martin Read wrote: > On 14/10/14 22:56, Steve Litt wrote: > >> On Wed, 15 Oct 2014 00:15:40 +0300 Andrei POPESCU >> <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> wrote: >>> And it also seems to make sense (why should every Desktop >>> Environment implement it's own solution for this?). >> And how were they handling this task before systemd? > > They were using ConsoleKit, which was orphaned upstream some time > after systemd-logind came along. And how were they handling it (or an analogous / equivalent task) before ConsoleKit, and the other *kit thingies, became a thing? I suspect that the answer is "they just didn't provide the functionality which ConsoleKit, and later systemd-logind, now enable them to provide", but I'm not aware - in a clear-understanding, defined-boundaries sense - of exactly what that functionality is, or of why it would be necessary or otherwise valuable, or of what the problem is which that functionality was intended to address. I have a similar lack of awareness and/or understanding about all of the *kit packages / projects / tools / what-have-you, actually; I'm not positive I even know how many there are, much less all of their names. This has probably contributed to the lack of that awareness / understanding, since any partial explanation I see for one of them gets partly conflated with and/or applied to the other(s?), and the whole thing gets muddied by that mire. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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