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Bug 239250 - gnome-base/gdm is missing the optional "consolekit" USE-flag
Summary: gnome-base/gdm is missing the optional "consolekit" USE-flag
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: x86 Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team
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Reported: 2008-10-01 15:38 UTC by Nils Larsson
Modified: 2009-05-01 10:29 UTC (History)
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Description Nils Larsson 2008-10-01 15:38:37 UTC
Now I don't know what needs GDM to run with consolekit(GNOME?), but some of us don't need it, and thus don't really care for the dep. So a,

if use consolekit ; then G2CONF="${G2CONF} --with-consolekit=yes" ; else
G2CONF="${G2CONF} --with-consolekit=no" ; fi

would be nice.

Reproducible: Always

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Comment 1 Gilles Dartiguelongue (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-10-01 18:57:55 UTC
when consolekit dep was added, it's been decided it was a small enough dependency bringing enough feature by itself without breaking things that it would be not optional (automounting for active user being one the things that it helps fixing).

Could you be more precise with you think you don't need it for ?
Comment 2 Simone Scanzoni 2009-02-13 00:30:17 UTC
I'm using Xfce. I have automounting working and I never ran ConsoleKit. I checked with lsof that none of its files was loaded. If you meant that I needed it for automounting, it seems I don't. Anyway, I think that making it optional and setting the consolekit USE flag default to on would be much more in the Gentoo spirit.
Comment 3 Simone Scanzoni 2009-02-17 19:17:46 UTC
Actually, after a recent emerge -uD world, my system didn't automount any more. I uninstalled consolekit (whose update seemed to be the cause) and it automounts again.
Comment 4 Gilles Dartiguelongue (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-05-01 10:17:14 UTC
reopening since I'm about to add it.
Comment 5 Gilles Dartiguelongue (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-05-01 10:29:11 UTC
fixed in 2.20.10-r1. Thanks for reporting. It'd be nice if you could try consolekit again though as it blocking automounting shouldn't happen out of the box, so it'd be nice to have a bug report for that.