Hi, I recently used Emerge at Home on my Windows 7 System with User Account Control enabled. With every patch call i got a user account control checkbox. When i researched the problem i landed on this blog post: http://butnottoohard.blogspot.com/2010/01/windows-7-chronicles-gnu-patch-mtexe.html
That describes how UAC checks for Keywords in applications and then "guesses" that this application is going to need higher privileges. Also described at: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb756960.aspx Since that behavior also appears with some KDE Windows programs (kconf_update, update_mime_types, and so on) and is really disturbing on new Windows Systems i think it is an issue for us. To fix that i would propose that we add a "post install" step for the affected applications which would embed a manifest, as described in the links. The big problem i see with that is that for the "intended" way you need the manifest tool or a similar application to do that, and i do not want to get Visual Studio / MS Windows SDK's. So does someone know a Free Software alternative to embed manifests files or has a better solution how to fix the UAC issues? (A Python script to embed manifest files in a way that Windows can read them would be cool ;) ) Greetings Andre -- Andre Heinecke | ++49-541-335083-262 | http://www.intevation.de/ Intevation GmbH, Neuer Graben 17, 49074 Osnabrück | AG Osnabrück, HR B 18998 Geschäftsführer: Frank Koormann, Bernhard Reiter, Dr. Jan-Oliver Wagner
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