Liliana Marie Prikler <liliana.prikler@ist.tugraz.at> writes:

> Am Freitag, dem 05.08.2022 um 09:48 +0300 schrieb muradm:
>>
>> Liliana Marie Prikler <liliana.prikler@ist.tugraz.at> writes:
>>
>> > Am Donnerstag, dem 04.08.2022 um 15:52 +0300 schrieb muradm:
>> > >
>> > > Liliana Marie Prikler <liliana.prikler@ist.tugraz.at> 
>> > > writes:
>> > >
>> > > > [...] [L]ooking at the two patches, it appears they are 
>> > > > to
>> > > > be used in combination?
>> > > >
>> > > No, technically they are not strongly dependent on each 
>> > > other,
>> > > could be applied one after another in no particular order.
>> > > After both are applied, in cooperation they address this 
>> > > issue.
>> > This is what I'm saying, albeit in different words.  As far 
>> > as I
>> > understand, neither of these patches really accomplishes
>> > anything if
>> > not put together.  Thus, you more or less opened three issues 
>> > to
>> > address one.
>> Really I don't know what to comment here else.  My analysis 
>> showed
>> two independent issues, one is that seatd should have a 
>> declared
>> group so that users of it could join it.  This issues is not
>> specific to greetd/greeter in any way.  Any other greeting 
>> mechanism
>> could fall short on this.
> But it is greetd that does, no?  If there are other greeting 
> mechanisms
> currently packaged in Guix falling short of this, please do 
> tell.
Point is not that "there are any/others affected", the point is, 
that
seatd is providing and interface, and currently it has a problem,
which is wrong permission.

>> And second, greeter today required conditional group to 
>> interact with
>> seatd, or it could be any other group like input, usb, modem or 
>> else
>> depending on user setup.
>> Solutions are offered accordingly. Third issue, this bug I was
>> asked to open. I don't understand, is it a sin to have multiple
>> issues, or what is the problem here?
> It is not really a problem, but an observation.  I personally 
> think a
> single series that has both patches would have been more visible 
> than
> this thing split across three topics for two patches.  There is 
> a small
> overhead if you have to consider merges and blocks, even if 
> debbugs
> supports them.
This is phylosophical topic, which I suppose is not in the scope.

>
> Cheers