On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 11:58:49AM -0600, Raphael Geissert wrote: > Bill Allombert wrote: > > Which as far as I'm aware of it doesn't exist.
It used to. Actually su-to-root desktop guessing code was lifted from the script in xdg-menu. I do not know why it was removed, thought it was not very good. > IMHO we can not just 'give up' because there's no common way to do it; if in > the feature xdg-utils ships such kind of wrapper su-to-root could simply > check for it and use it instead. The Exec field of .desktop file is specified byt the XDG menu draft, and should follow the XDG draft, and not distribution-specific indiosyncrasy. Discuss the issue on the XDG list. > Please also remember that xdg-utils is Priority: optional while debianutils > is Essential: yes, Priority: required; meaning that if packages were to > use 'xdg-su-wrapper' they would have to Depend on xdg-utils pulling yet an > other package. This is a very weak argument: packages that implement XDG menus should really depend on xdg-utils (but of course not packages simply providing .desktop files). > But other than that what do you think about moving su-to-root to > debianutils? Given what is su-to-root, I do not think it make sense to have it be Essential: yes. It is almost never used. I do not like the idea of moving su-to-root outside of menu source because there are people using menu outside Debian and they would be inconvenienced if the tarball does not contain su-to-root anymore. Cheers, -- Bill. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Imagine a large red swirl here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
