From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?UTF-8?B?Q2xhZXMgV2FsbGluICjpn4vlmInoqqAp?= Subject: Re: elogind status Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2015 13:48:17 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87h9ntexrp.fsf@igalia.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39607) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZSkoE-0002g2-MA for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Aug 2015 07:48:35 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZSkoB-000509-GO for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Aug 2015 07:48:34 -0400 Received: from mail.lysator.liu.se ([130.236.254.3]:54292) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZSkoB-0004y4-A5 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Aug 2015 07:48:31 -0400 Received: from mail.lysator.liu.se (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.lysator.liu.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC02440009 for ; Fri, 21 Aug 2015 13:48:20 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail-oi0-f52.google.com (mail-oi0-f52.google.com [209.85.218.52]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.lysator.liu.se (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id F0EA040009 for ; Fri, 21 Aug 2015 13:48:19 +0200 (CEST) Received: by oiev193 with SMTP id v193so39988185oie.3 for ; Fri, 21 Aug 2015 04:48:17 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87h9ntexrp.fsf@igalia.com> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Andy Wingo Cc: guix-devel On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 12:33 PM, Andy Wingo 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). -- /c