Re: [gentoo-dev] Make the policykit USE flag global

2009-03-22 Thread Nirbheek Chauhan
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 6:42 PM, Olivier Crête tes...@gentoo.org wrote: Feel the trend? gnome-base/gnome-panel will follow soon. Lets make this global. Unless we decide that PolicyKit is the future and make it compulsory). If no one complains, I will make the changes in a couple days. So,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Make the policykit USE flag global

2009-03-20 Thread Robert Piasek
Hi Zac, On Thursday 19 March 2009 19:20:52 Zac Medico wrote: Robert Piasek wrote: I think it would be also good idea to add policykit support and finally unmask it. It seems some packages have hardcoded --without-policy-kit / --without- policykit and some others add policykit to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Make the policykit USE flag global

2009-03-19 Thread Robert Piasek
Hi, On Wednesday 18 March 2009 13:12:45 Olivier Crête wrote: Hello, use.local.desc:app-admin/gnome-system-tools:policykit - Use sys-auth/policykit to gain privileges to change configuration files use.local.desc:app-admin/system-tools-backends:policykit - Use sys-auth/policykit to gain

Re: [gentoo-dev] Make the policykit USE flag global

2009-03-19 Thread Rémi Cardona
Le 19/03/2009 15:23, Robert Piasek a écrit : Feel the trend? gnome-base/gnome-panel will follow soon. Lets make this global. Unless we decide that PolicyKit is the future and make it compulsory). If no one complains, I will make the changes in a couple days. That seems reasonable. ACK from

Re: [gentoo-dev] Make the policykit USE flag global

2009-03-19 Thread Doug Goldstein
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 10:26 AM, Rémi Cardona r...@gentoo.org wrote: Le 19/03/2009 15:23, Robert Piasek a écrit : Feel the trend? gnome-base/gnome-panel will follow soon. Lets make this global. Unless we decide that PolicyKit is the future and make it compulsory). If no one complains, I

Re: [gentoo-dev] Make the policykit USE flag global

2009-03-19 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robert Piasek wrote: I think it would be also good idea to add policykit support and finally unmask it. It seems some packages have hardcoded --without-policy-kit / --without- policykit and some others add policykit to package.use.mask (btw can

Re: [gentoo-dev] Make the policykit USE flag global

2009-03-19 Thread Rémi Cardona
Le 19/03/2009 19:12, Doug Goldstein a écrit : The problem would be a simple fix if PolicyKit supported groups and we could just say give all access to those in the wheel group as a reasonable default. But alas, it does not. Arguably we can probably patch that in and just be done with it.