[TriLUG] Linux home directory management is about to undergo major change

[Matt Flyer via TriLUG]

The mention of consolekit jumped out at me because of a "news" item in
the Gentoo update I did recently: https://www.gentoo.org/support/news-i
tems/2020-04-14-elogind-default.html

"ConsoleKit2 is unmaintained upstream for more than two years [2].
There are many longstanding bugs and papercuts with consumers that
aren't being fixed, not least because these code paths receive very
little testing."

As a result, they are removing it and using elogind instead and it is
recommended that you remove consolekit support via the use flags when
you compile or update your system.

On Thu, 2020-05-07 at 14:10 -0400, Steve Litt via TriLUG wrote:
> Although correct in spirit, the preceding assertion got details
> wrong.
> systemd-logind or whatever it's currently called replaced
> *consolekit*,
> whose maintainer FreeDesktop.Org deprecated as soon as they had
> systemd-logind working:
> 
> https://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/ConsoleKit/
> 
> As far as whether FreeDesktop.Org left standing a systemd-independent
> version of consolekit, I can't figure out. The following might be
> such:
> 
> https://cgit.freedesktop.org/ConsoleKit/tree/
> 
> Even if that source is still pre-systemd and free to fork, the fact
> that systemd development is paid for by Redhat and others, while the
> forkers must fork after a hard day's work, skews the software
> universe
> and contradicts any "the better software won" claims.
> 
>