[Mageia-dev] ConsoleKit vs systemd session tracking for Mageia 2

[Olav Vitters]

FYI,

A bunch of GNOME modules now have --enable-systemd configure flags. This
will make them use systemd instead of (deprecated ConsoleKit) to track
login sessions.

I made a tracker bug on GNOME Bugzilla:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=systemd

Modules I noticed (and added to the tracker bug):
 - NetworkManager
 - gnome-settings-daemon
 - gnome-session
 - gnome-control-center
 - gnome-packagekit
 - system-monitor

And related to systemd:
 - gnome-control-center (timedated)
   This just relies on the daemon to be there; systemd doesn't need to
   be running (99% sure of this), the daemon is part in the systemd
   tarball.
   We do need to ensure Mageia 2 always has timedated. This is used to
   change the timezone and so on btw.


These seem to be compile time checks. Meaning: if --enable-systemd is
added to ./configure, the functionality won't work on sysvinit. I am not
sure exactly what will break under sysvinit. The bugreports to contain
some discussion though.


Could a systemd expert look into this and suggest what is best for
Mageia 2?

-- 
Regards,
Olav