FS#17111 - [hal] unwanted dependency consolekit

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Daniele C. (legolas558) - Thursday, 12 November 2009, 16:14 GMT
Last edited by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Thursday, 12 November 2009, 20:42 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 3
Private No

Details

'hal' package depends on 'consolekit'. consolekit is a nasty daemon offering little functionality and wasting considerable memory and CPU, and should not be a due dependency.

Furthermore, there is no way to disable consolekit and to have hal running.

extra/hal 0.5.13-3
extra/consolekit 0.4.1-1
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Closed by  Jan de Groot (JGC)
Thursday, 12 November 2009, 20:42 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Additional comments about closing:  Consolekit is added because it handles authorization using the at_console rules used in hal.

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