On Sun, 03 Feb 08 13:20, Russ Allbery wrote: > > This would have the benefit of making su-to-root OR depend, instead of > > just suggest, on the several packages which provide a su* wrapper > > ensuring its functionality. > > I don't think this is necessary. su-to-root falls back to su if none of > the other packages exist, and su is essential. Similarly, under X, it > falls back to x-terminal-emulator if none of the other packages exist, and > any X environment should have x-terminal-emulator.
The problem I see here is, that currently a lot of packages which use su-to-root depend on something like "gksu | kdebase-bin | kdebase-runtime | sux". Now that parts of KDE 4 are around the dependency has to be changed to something like "gksu | kdebase-bin (<<4:4.0.0) | kdebase-runtime". When KDE 3 is no more the dependency on kdebase-bin can be completely removed and all the dependencies should be changed sooner or later. Same happens if a new *su alternative is around. It would be nice, if we would have a single place to change this kind of dependency. Greetings, Armin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
