OK, thanks Ben. Ian W. On 29/11/2014, at 3:14 PM, Ben Cooksley wrote: > On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 4:58 PM, Ian Wadham <iandw...@gmail.com> wrote: >> If you can possibly avoid it, please do not put Polkit-kde-agent in a >> Plasma-only module (as has happened to Dr Konqi). That is if p-k-a >> is something that might need to run on a platform where Plasma is >> not used, such as Windows or Apple OS X. > > polkit-kde-agent is very much part of the desktop session and manages > authentication prompts from Polkit. Windows and OS X have their own > frameworks here, while other desktop environments such as GNOME, Xfce, > etc. would provide their own polkit agents. > > Polkit is used to run helpers with additional privileges (usually by > running as root) to perform certain tasks (like changing the system > time).
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