MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for polkit-dumb-agent-git [2]: Broken, unbuildable on current Arch Linux / KDE Plasma 6. Upstream has been abandoned for 3 years [a], and doesn't respond even to build failure or use-case-breaking issues. [b]
Also this was a just a crude hack attempt to neutralize / thwart PolKit on KDE and replace it with kdesu, to launch everything that needs any specific temporarily elevated credential with granting that process a runtime-persistent root access via su. Such a hack is totally unneeded nowadays. A majority of popular GUI applications that require elevated access do support PolKit, and the ones that don't still can invoke a temporary sudo-based root process. In my experience, Arch Linux is very mature in its PolKit support. I primarily use KDE desktop but with many GNOME and third-party applications, and they work just fine without any PolKit hacks. It is not worth trying to fix this broken package because this program is ill-conceived. If there is any PolKit/credential issue experienced with any application, an issue should be filed for upstream and/or for the Arch Linux package in question. [a]: https://github.com/sandsmark/polkit-dumb-agent [b]: https://github.com/sandsmark/polkit-dumb-agent/issues [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/polkit-dumb-agent-git/
