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From: Theo Chatzimichos <tampakrap@g.o>
To: gentoo-desktop@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-desktop] use flags consolekit and policykit
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 08:39:30
Message-Id: AANLkTinWGog+uvrnXw+KRi7PbKbpjHDnDKm3SKzApELK@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-desktop] use flags consolekit and policykit by "Andreas K. Huettel"
1 On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 10:17 AM, Andreas K. Huettel
2 <dilfridge@g.o> wrote:
3 >
4 > Dear all,
5 >
6 > at the last kde meeting we've been discussing the usefulness of the use flags
7 > consolekit and policykit. I'm quoting from the summary:
8 >
9 >> scarabeus and dilfridge are in favour of dropping them, since it
10 >> caused a lot of trouble debugging various user reports. reavertm
11 >> prefers adding it to IUSE defaults. No consensus was succeeded,
12 >> the topic will be continued in the gentoo-desktop mailing list.
13 >
14 > As an example, according to
15 > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=244444
16 > policykit is _not_ a hard dependency of kde, but _required_ whenever you want
17 > to "run as" or configure something in systemsettings as root.
18 >
19 > The three options available are
20 > 1) removing the useflags, effectively "forcing them on". Easiest for us
21 > maintainers,
22 > 2) forcing them on with use.force in the profile, and trust that not so many
23 > users figure out how to get around this :)
24 > 3) making them "on by default"
25 >
26 > As a special gem, after switching one of the flags it may be necessary to
27 > recompile larger parts of kde and / or restart kdm.
28 >
29 > Opinions?
30
31 The depedencies are indeed really small, but the reason that some of
32 us objected is that we want to follow upstream's decisions on what is
33 optional and what is not. A similar issue that emerged recently is
34 udisks and friends, which is also optional according to upstream and
35 not needed for people that want KDElibs for only a few apps and not
36 for the full DE. We'd like to have some user feedback on this before
37 our final decision.

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Re: [gentoo-desktop] use flags consolekit and policykit Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
[gentoo-desktop] Re: use flags consolekit and policykit Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net>