Bug#801253: how to handle not much used feature which depends on a deprecated technology
Hi,
thanks toogley for trying to tackle this issue.
Paul Wise wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 3:28 AM, toogley wrote:
> > what do you think about that? Am i missing sth?
>
> I would go with 1) or 3) add support for systemd-logind and whatever
> other options there are for people who don't like systemd (ConsoleKit2
> etc) and send that to upstream.
Indeed, thanks Paul for that comment.
wicd seems the most popular alternative to NetworkManager for those
who dislike NetworkManager's hard dependency on libpam-systemd and
hence systemd.
So to add an exclusive hard dependency on anything systemd-ish would
probably annoy a not so small part of wicd's user base in Debian and
should be avoided.
Making use of systemd features if systemd is installed, is though
welcome. This means that according configuration files should be
shipped, but wicd should not solely rely on them -- as it seems to
have happened with consolekit in the past.
Regards, Axel
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