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LegionOfHell
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 Posted: Thu Dec 17, 2020 2:31 pm Post subject: elogind vs suid+pm-utils, which one installs more packages ? |
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xorg-server by default installs elogind.
which one of the following two scenarios installs more packages and needs more compilation time ?:
| Quote: | (1) elogind
(2) suid+pm-utils |
At first I thought I do not need elogind , then I realized that it provides suspend/hibernate functionality and then thought maybe if it installs less packages and compilation time is less than or equal to suid+pm-utils...why not go with elogind ?
What do you think ? which scenario is better, (1) or (2) |
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Naib
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| Posted: Thu Dec 17, 2020 4:26 pm Post subject: |
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3) seatd
And xorg shouldn't pull in elogind... Some DM (lighten,gdm,kdm) might but those are not xorg
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Hu
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| Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2020 10:51 pm Post subject: |
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x11-base/xorg-server[elogind] will activate the dependency block: | Code: | elogind? (
sys-apps/dbus
sys-auth/elogind[pam]
sys-auth/pambase[elogind]
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You do not need elogind for suspend/hibernate to work. I have systems that had working suspend and hibernate for years before elogind even existed. You may need elogind or an equivalent to allow unprivileged suspend/hibernate though. I start my power management via the machine's power switch triggering an ACPI event (which is received by a root-privileged process) or by running a command in a root shell. |
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sitquietly
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| Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2020 7:34 pm Post subject: |
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| Hu wrote: | | [color=blue]...You do not need elogind for suspend/hibernate to work. I have systems that had working suspend and hibernate for years before elogind even existed. You may need elogind or an equivalent to allow unprivileged suspend/hibernate though. I start my power management via the machine's power switch triggering an ACPI event (which is received by a root-privileged process) or by running a command in a root shell. |
Absolutely the way to go. I don't need elogind for anything. I usually use my custom fluxbox desktop environment but I have full plasma-meta installed without systemd or elogind or policykit. It runs fast and reliable. (Of course I have to keep an edited ebuild for plasma-meta, and a couple other things, in my own overlay where I tear the heart out of the evil modern-linux beast and make it simple again). |
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crocket
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| sitquietly wrote: | | Absolutely the way to go. I don't need elogind for anything. I usually use my custom fluxbox desktop environment but I have full plasma-meta installed without systemd or elogind or policykit. It runs fast and reliable. (Of course I have to keep an edited ebuild for plasma-meta, and a couple other things, in my own overlay where I tear the heart out of the evil modern-linux beast and make it simple again). |
If you want simplicity, I recommend sway. |
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