On Wed, 16 Feb 2022 09:17:41 -0800 Adam Williamson <adamw...@fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2022-02-16 at 12:12 -0500, Ben Cotton wrote: > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/polkit_recommends_pkla_pkexec > > > > == Summary == > > Split `pkexec` from the polkit package and make it a recommended > > only sub-package. Similarly, make the polkit-pkla-compat package a > > recommended package too. This will enable users and desktop no > > longer relying on those features to avoid installing them. > > Splitting them off but making them Recommended seems odd to me. At > that point we've got all the work of splitting them but little of the > benefit, because soft dependencies are included when building images, > so our default installs are still going to include pkexec. > > Why not just not have them recommended at all, and instead try to find > all packages that use them and add dependencies, so that they will be > included when an image or whatever really does need them? Is that > considered too difficult? I woould prefer having hard dependencies on the necessary packages instead of a recommends. Some of us run with weak dependencies turned off and the missing requires will break things for us. Having the recommends in place will mask the breakage instead of letting it be caught in testing. Jim _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
