The package mate-base/mate-session-manager does not have to depend on neither elogind nor systemd. As stated in https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-session-manager/blob/master/configure.ac they both are optional and neither is required to compile nor run the package. I can confirm by every day usage without any obvious problems. Since the MATE Desktop Environment is meant to be lightweight we should remove the hard dependency on elogind resp. systemd. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Try to emerge mate-base/mate-session-manager without elogind or systemd use flag. Actual Results: 2. You are forced to either use elogind or systemd. 3. :-/ Expected Results: One should be able to emerge the package both without using elogind or systemd. Let people emerge and live with a systemd-free system if they wish so.
Created attachment 880788 [details, diff] mate-session-manager-1.26.1.ebuild.patch Added patch to remove hard use flag requirement on elogind/systemd.
I can see a couple of ways this could cause an issue which I'm sure is why it was added in the first place. I'll do some tests to make sure those are resolved and merge in your patch if successful. Thanks for the patch and test data.
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=dd1d4cd96422edfc33ae952e8173c65966861ef6 commit dd1d4cd96422edfc33ae952e8173c65966861ef6 Author: Ian Jordan <immoloism@gmail.com> AuthorDate: 2024-01-03 19:23:36 +0000 Commit: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2024-01-19 10:49:37 +0000 mate-base/mate-session-manager: remove forcing the need for elogind or system Not required upstream, keeping to testing keywords for now to see if anything was missed but from early testing this seems safe to apply in Gentoo. Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/920839 Signed-off-by: Ian Jordan <immoloism@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> mate-base/mate-session-manager/mate-session-manager-1.26.1.ebuild | 4 +--- mate-base/mate-session-manager/mate-session-manager-1.27.0.ebuild | 7 +------ 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
