Re: Proposed external dep: PolicyKit

2008-05-08 Thread Colin Walters
On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 15:37 -0500, Brian Cameron wrote: Considering that PolicyKit is just one mechanism to support authentication management, I guess I do not really understand the need to make PolicyKit mandatory. Since GNOME is free software, I would think that if Sun, or anybody, wants

Re: Proposed external dep: PolicyKit

2008-05-08 Thread Brian Cameron
Colin: Yes, I think Jason was being unfair; as far as I know RBAC predates PolicyKit, and obviously Solaris can't just drop it in the near future. However - I do think it makes sense for a technology like this to be integrated into the desktop. Oh, I agree. I very much support