[libvirt] [libvirt-users] Please remove pm-utils dep from libvirt-clients

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 03:45:43PM +0200, Michal Privoznik wrote:
> On 05.08.2013 15:41, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 03:07:15PM +0200, Michal Privoznik wrote:
> >> On 05.08.2013 14:46, Richard Hughes wrote:
> >>> On 5 August 2013 12:15, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com> wrote:
> >>>> What is the replacement ?  We need to be able to query whether
> >>>> each of suspend, hibernate, or suspend-hybrid are supported on
> >>>> a host, and then report that upto the mgmt app using libvirt.
> >>>
> >>> I think everything ported to the dbus methods like
> >>> org.freedesktop.login1.Manager.CanSuspend(),
> >>> org.freedesktop.login1.Manager.CanHibernate() etc. if you need to use
> >>> shell you can use gdbus -- yell if you need a more concrete example.
> >>> Thanks.
> >>>
> >>> Richard
> >>
> >> I'd rather see libvirt dependent on pm-utils than dbus. Moreover, the
> >> methods paths are not unified AFAIK. For instance, I'm using KDE and on
> >> my system it's:
> >>
> >> org.freedesktop.UPower.HibernateAllowed()
> >> org.freedesktop.UPower.SuspendAllowed()
> >>
> >> Paths you've provided don't exist at all on my system.
> > 
> > What distro are you using which doesn't have the org.freedesktop.login1
> > DBus APIs ?
> > 
> 
> gentoo without systemd.

Presumably they're still shipping pm-utils for the foreseable future ?
So as long as we fallback to our existing code, using the systemd
APIs shouldn't be a problem.

Daniel
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