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On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 10:17 AM, Andreas K. Huettel |
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<dilfridge@g.o> wrote: |
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> Dear all, |
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> at the last kde meeting we've been discussing the usefulness of the use flags |
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> consolekit and policykit. I'm quoting from the summary: |
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>> scarabeus and dilfridge are in favour of dropping them, since it |
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>> caused a lot of trouble debugging various user reports. reavertm |
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>> prefers adding it to IUSE defaults. No consensus was succeeded, |
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>> the topic will be continued in the gentoo-desktop mailing list. |
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> As an example, according to |
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> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=244444 |
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> policykit is _not_ a hard dependency of kde, but _required_ whenever you want |
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> to "run as" or configure something in systemsettings as root. |
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> The three options available are |
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> 1) removing the useflags, effectively "forcing them on". Easiest for us |
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> maintainers, |
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> 2) forcing them on with use.force in the profile, and trust that not so many |
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> users figure out how to get around this :) |
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> 3) making them "on by default" |
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> As a special gem, after switching one of the flags it may be necessary to |
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> recompile larger parts of kde and / or restart kdm. |
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> Opinions? |
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The depedencies are indeed really small, but the reason that some of |
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us objected is that we want to follow upstream's decisions on what is |
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optional and what is not. A similar issue that emerged recently is |
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udisks and friends, which is also optional according to upstream and |
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not needed for people that want KDElibs for only a few apps and not |
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for the full DE. We'd like to have some user feedback on this before |
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our final decision. |