Quoting tekHedd (tekh...@byteheaven.net): > Re this thread, clearly a multi-user system with a GUI does need > polkit and /some/ sort of dbus mechanism (which I will henceforth > refer to as the "dbus mechanism" as if it were some sort of doomsday > device).
I don't think I buy that assumption, at all. Users who need access to a sound device can be added to the group with privileges to that sound advice, etc. Proper user-friendly administrative tools can front-end that granting of user privilege. A whole new system layer to regulate access to everything strikes me a solution in search of a problem. dbus as a generic object-and-message-passing mechanism seems per-se harmless enough, but the history of component software using a messaging bus (e.g., CORBA, KCOP, Microsoft's OLE) is wretched and wasteful enough that I doubt the competence at software design of coders making significant use of it, and, again, I see no compelling use-case at all. -- Cheers, "Why doesn't anyone invite copyeditors to parties, Rick Moen when we're such cool people out with whom to hang?" r...@linuxmafia.com -- @laureneoneal (Lauren O'Neal) McQ! (4x80) _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
