Re: elogind status

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On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 12:33 PM, Andy Wingo <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi :)
>
> To pick up a thread from May, I was poking at elogind recently.  A bit
> of recap as to how things got here, then the status.

[ . . . ]

> I want GNOME on Guix :)  GNOME used to support ConsoleKit but doesn't
> any more.  There is a ConsoleKit2 project that started recently but
> without buy-in from GNOME I don't see a future for it.  GNOME really
> needs the org.freedesktop.login1 D-Bus interface -- really wants it.  So
> I thought, OK, let's pull logind out of systemd, and see where that gets
> us.
>
> The result is https://github.com/andywingo/elogind.  It provides:
>
>   * a logind-compatible API with a different library name, libelogind
>
>   * a pkg-config file, libelogind.pc
>
>   * a daemon, elogind
>
>   * a PAM module, pam_elogind.so
>
>   * a query/control utility, loginctl

This is great to hear!

How much do you know about what uselessd, nosh and the Ubuntu logind
shim and how they did things? I don't know anything, I just know these
things exist.

I want GNOME on Guix too! Currently running Guix on NixOS mostly for
this reason (they use systemd).

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   /c