Yet another systemd fiasco

Posted Nov 20, 2014 12:59 UTC (Thu) by em (subscriber, #91304)
In reply to: Yet another systemd fiasco by javispedro
Parent article: Russ Allbery leaves the Debian technical committee

> Wait, what? There are plenty of ConsoleKit alternatives, including ConsoleKit itself (software doesn't wear out, remember?), ConsoleKit2, and the Oracle fork. They all use the same API.

Mh, software may not wear, but for sure if nobody maintains it new bugs get discovered and no bug gets fixed, so I can easily sympathize with the Debian GNOME team not wanting to take the blame for ConsoleKit's bugs when a better alternative exists.

ConsoleKit2 is a *very* recent development, but it's nice that someone finally picked up the ball and probably will be considered in the future (AFAIK no stable releases have been done yet, see https://github.com/ConsoleKit2/ConsoleKit2/releases ).

I was not aware of the Oracle fork, but I just don't want to think about what those people who talk about RedHat conspiracies will say when the proposed alternative is Oracle. :/