If user is emerging some polkit-requiring package on DE-less system, it will pull big bunch of KDE, GNOME, etc. pacakges, which is not desired. Also, nm-applet and others can be set up with localauthority files, without help of polkit agents. I don't think virtual will solve this case.
- [gentoo-dev] [RFC] virtual/polkit-agent virtual pkg Fabio Erculiani
- Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] virtual/polkit-agent virtual ... Maxim Koltsov
- Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] virtual/polkit-agent virt... Samuli Suominen
- Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] virtual/polkit-agent virtual ... Nirbheek Chauhan