Bug 727840 – gui-wm/sway-1.4-r3: Extraneous(?) dependency on sys-auth/consolekit

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Haelwenn (lanodan) Monnier 2020-06-10 13:17:18 UTC]

As seen in https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=6374f22a4ec4034fc220f621aa854d01c2113101

I'm not sure why this change was done as there is no explaination in the commit message at all (Maybe stuff like firefox relying on non-standard environment variables? Typical of Mozilla to only care for Gnome Wayland, which follows it's own way of doing things).

This dependency on sys-auth/consolekit should at least be something that you can toggle off with a USE flag as it's *not* a dependency of sway, and there should be an explaination as to why it's in there.

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Matthew Thode ( prometheanfire ) 2020-06-10 19:07:00 UTC]

if it's required to launch sway if elogind or logind (via systemd) is not installed isn't it a runtime dep?

[Comment 2 Haelwenn (lanodan) Monnier 2020-06-12 05:09:29 UTC]

(In reply to Matthew Thode ( prometheanfire ) from comment #1)
> if it's required to launch sway if elogind or logind (via systemd) is not
> installed isn't it a runtime dep?

How is ConsoleKit a requirement?

- Sway runs fine without systemd/elogind as well as without ConsoleKit
- It's not documented as a dependency of it, the only mention of it that I've found is in https://github.com/swaywm/sway/wiki/Startup-(process-manager)-Integration where it's something optional, a bit like using it for X11 window managers or using any login/display manager.
- ConsoleKit seems to be just yet another login manager

[Comment 3 Matthew Thode ( prometheanfire ) 2020-06-12 05:25:04 UTC]

it was the way https://bugs.gentoo.org/708680 was solved

[Comment 4 lord-gentoo 2020-06-16 14:45:57 UTC]

Sway can work without systemd|elogind|consolekit but in this case the binary must be suid.
Consolkit is not mandatory.

[Comment 5 Sam James 2020-06-18 18:19:17 UTC]

*** Bug 728680 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 6 Larry the Git Cow 2020-06-18 19:00:39 UTC]

The bug has been closed via the following commit(s):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=dde113dd8cb0c69720f98883903aef3bfce0a3ed

commit dde113dd8cb0c69720f98883903aef3bfce0a3ed
Author:     Matthew Thode <[e-mail]>
AuthorDate: 2020-06-18 19:00:21 +0000
Commit:     Matthew Thode <[e-mail]>
CommitDate: 2020-06-18 19:00:21 +0000

    gui-wm/sway: remove consolekit dependency
    
    Fixes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/727840
    Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.99, Repoman-2.3.22
    Signed-off-by: Matthew Thode <[e-mail]>

 gui-wm/sway/sway-1.4-r3.ebuild | 120 -----------------------------------------
 gui-wm/sway/sway-9999.ebuild   |   1 -
 2 files changed, 121 deletions(-)