I'd expect the usual pioneering of Arch for giving the option. I guess it's up to the maintainers, but I don't see what could delay it in comparison to Fedora. Is any special building flag needed that could get in the way? 2014-04-06 21:44 GMT-03:00 Daniel Micay <danielmicay@xxxxxxxxx>: > On 06/04/14 12:43 AM, Mark Lee wrote: > > Salutations, > > > > Since Fedora 21 is working on dropping X root rights via systemd-logind. > > Does Arch intend to follow? > > > > From, > > Mark > > Thanks to the work on logind, our Weston package already works as > non-root if you launch it as `weston` instead of `weston-launch`. > > When xorg-server 1.16 is released, this will also work for X. I've been > planning on splitting out `weston-launch` from the regular Weston > package or simply removing it (unsure if there are any usable video > drivers requiring it) and I assume the setuid binary for X will have a > similar fate. > >
