On Wed, 5 Aug 2015, Rick Moen wrote:
Quoting Andrew McGlashan (andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au):
I am convinced, systemd want to control everything, including power doesn't it?
Nah, upower wants to control power.
PolKit wants to control process permissions. systemd-logind wants to control login and 'seat' access to consoles. D-Bus wants to control chatter among processes. udisks2 wants to control access to storage. pm-utils and HAL want to control suspend/resume.
And all of them want to convince you that all the others are essential because they're all part of the Freedesktop.org stack. But they won't hurt you if you don't believe in them.
Won't hurt? Getting a laptop to do any action upon lid close used to be so easy - pop a script in /etc/acpi somewhere. Power removed and want to spin the HD down more aggressively? Trivial! But then some idiots came along, who though gnome was the entire world, and now it's impossible to not get it to stomp on your feet when you want to tell suspend-on-lid-close to fsck right off to where it belongs. -- Tim Connors