[Nix-dev] consolekit mandatory?

Eelco Dolstra eelco.dolstra at logicblox.com
Mon Aug 20 01:03:56 CEST 2012


Hi,

On 19/08/12 18:58, Mathijs Kwik wrote:

> I'm not very familiar with consolekit, because it has always "just
> worked" for me on a desktop setting, and it hasn't bitten me for
> servers yet either, but I'm not sure if modern systems (especially
> servers) can still function without it.
> The website for consolekit mentions consolekit is no longer actively
> maintained in favor of systemd-loginctl,

Right, consolekit should soon be gone in NixOS.  The systemd branch no longer
uses it.  So it's probably not worth it to put in a lot of effort to make it
optional in the master at the moment.

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Eelco Dolstra | LogicBlox, Inc. | http://nixos.org/~eelco/


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