On Friday 25 December 2009 00:51:41 Diederik de Haas wrote: > On 2009-12-25 George Kiagiadakis wrote: > > Yes, they are co-installable, but I mean that the API is incompatible, > > so you can't take a policykit-based application and compile it with > > policykit-1. Much like Qt3 and Qt4 are incompatible with each other. > > Thanks for the explanation, installing policykit-1 didn't have an effect > (on the module), which I hoped it would do (ie add > org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume to the list) > > > > Does that mean that the PolicyKit Authorization module will not work > > > properly until 4.5 is released? That will also mean that Squeeze won't > > > have a working PolicyKit module. > > > > Probably yes. And I guess it won't be compiled at all in the 4.4 > > series, since debian squeeze will only ship policykit-1 afaik. > > Wow, bummer. I was rather impressed how it worked (when it did) > > > > Or is my system messed up and it does work properly for others (except > > > Goran Dobosevic)? > > > > Mounting drives works fine for me, if that's what you are asking. > > Afaik, the default policy is to allow mounting external drives if the > > user trying to do that is the active user on the system. > > I can still mount them (as root) but auto-mounting it from Dolphin (as me > as normal user) was rather handy. > It still works for removable drives, but the partitions/drives in question > are internal hard disks and those aren't mountable by users by default, > unless you change the policy. > > Thanks for the info. > > Diederik > The plans seem to suggest to me that a policykit-1 system settings module and kauth backend will be available in kdereview for kde 4.4, but won't be the default. Debian could compile the policykit-1 backend as the default when compiling kauth.
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