[artix-general] blocaled-0.1 released

[Christos Nouskas]

On Wed, 11 Dec 2019 21:54:57 +0100
Pierre Labastie via artix-general <artix-general at artixlinux.org> wrote:

> Not sure it is the right place to report this, please tell me.
> I've released the first version of blocaled (BLFS-localed)[1], implementing
> the org.freedesktop.locale1 D-Bus service as a standalone daemon.
> It is a descendant of the openrc-settingsd daemon, with no reference
> to openrc anymore (and the other services hostname1 and timedate1
> removed).
> I've added a test framework, fixed a bug [2], and added the possibility to
> choose the settings file names (for keymap, locale and xlayout) at build
> time and also through a config file.
> With this daemon, +elogind, the gnome desktop can be run
> on a non systemd, non openrc, machine, with (almost) all
> bells and whistles (gnome-logs, which depends on journald is
> obviously missing). See [3] for a working example.
> 
> I've made a PKGBUILD and tested it on Artix with runit as init
> system. Note that I have not tested gnome yet on Artix.

Your contribution is most welcome. Since this is dev stuff, we can continue
the talk in artix-dev if need be.
 
> So, if you are interested, please tell me, I'll be glad to help packaging
> it for Artix.

Yes we are, in fact we were discussing in the IRC about packaging it ourselves
when your email arrived. You can join freenode/#artix and just say you're the
blocaled developer so we know your registered nickname and some dev puts it in
the #artix-dev access list. If you're not an IRC guy, the artix-dev mailing
list is just as fine.

> Regards,
> Pierre Labastie

Thank you for your contribution and offer for help.

> 
> [1] https://github.com/pierre-labastie/blocaled/releases/tag/v0.1
> [2] https://bugs.gentoo.org/699530
> [3] http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/

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