On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 9:50 PM, Fabio Erculiani lx...@gentoo.org wrote:
We have actually 3 polkit agent implementations in Portage:
gnome-extra/polkit-gnome
lxde-base/lxpolkit
sys-auth/polkit-kde-agent
There's one more: gnome-base/gnome-shell
GNOME Shell has its own polkit-agent
On 09/06/2011 07:44 PM, Maxim Koltsov wrote:
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
We have actually 3 polkit agent implementations in Portage:
gnome-extra/polkit-gnome
lxde-base/lxpolkit
sys-auth/polkit-kde-agent
I guess a virtual is required.
Just a simple example, gnome-extra/nm-applet requires a polkit auth
agent (not present in RDEPEND atm -- bug!) in order to handle wifi
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.
