Bug 498404 – [qt overlay] x11-misc/sddm should not unconditionally depend on sys-power/upower

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Gino McCarty 2014-01-17 20:39:09 UTC]

sddm builds and installs fine without upower..
not all users run upower and or *kit...

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Gino McCarty 2014-01-17 20:39:45 UTC]

Created attachment 368052 [details, diff]
Fix for sddm-9999.ebuild

[Comment 2 Elias Probst 2014-02-12 19:56:57 UTC]

I believe this requirement can also be fulfilled by systemd-logind which also implements the D-Bus interface, otherwise provided by upower.
See also: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/logind/

So this dependency would only be required for non-systemd users.

Does anyone have sufficient knowledge for a final answer to this?

[Comment 3 Gino McCarty 2014-02-12 21:33:33 UTC]

(In reply to Elias Probst from comment #2)
> I believe this requirement can also be fulfilled by systemd-logind which
> also implements the D-Bus interface, otherwise provided by upower.
> See also: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/logind/
> 
> So this dependency would only be required for non-systemd users.
> 
> Does anyone have sufficient knowledge for a final answer to this?

I run sddm without upower or systemd and it runs fine, this offers enhanced functionality but is not required for basic functionality in sddm.

If you check upstream you will also see that this (systemd in cmake) is an OPTIONAL build dependency for sddm.

[Comment 4 Gino McCarty 2014-02-12 21:53:13 UTC]

Created attachment 370254 [details]
sddm-9999.ebuild -  Ebuild Revision (v4)

Newest ebuild for upower or systemd fulfilling power management requirement

Also posted here

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=498828

Maybe merge these two issues.

[Comment 5 Jauhien Piatlicki (RETIRED) 2014-05-24 19:44:09 UTC]

Fixed both in overlay and tree. Closing.