[Mageia-dev] Removing ConsoleKit

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Kamil Rytarowski at 19/10/12 21:32 did gyre and gimble:
> On 19.10.2012 01:24, JA Magallón wrote:
>> Hi...
> Hello!
>>
>> CK is not maintaned anymore, it is deprecated.
> There were some hacks in WindowMaker with Polkit, is this the same
> thing?
> http://svnweb.mageia.org/packages/cauldron/windowmaker/current/SOURCES/windowmaker-0.95.2-mga-Mageia-preconfigured-desktop.patch?view=markup
> 
> I tried to enable it due to  the network manager applet.

No the polkit stuff is somewhat separate here. Polkit would have in the
past used CK as input to judge the current session state, but it these
days uses logind. So in this case the high level stuff is abstracted
from the low level change.

Col


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