Gentoo Archives: gentoo-desktop

From: Fabio Erculiani <lxnay@g.o>
To: gentoo-desktop@l.g.o
Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-desktop] [RFC] virtual/polkit-agent virtual pkg
Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2011 16:22:23
Message-Id: CAN3AtvpX0Gnk5BqfFQPcRB0Eb404+nzoRSBLEx5P28vL-BoJRQ@mail.gmail.com
1 We have actually 3 polkit agent implementations in Portage:
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3 gnome-extra/polkit-gnome
4 lxde-base/lxpolkit
5 sys-auth/polkit-kde-agent
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7 I guess a virtual is required.
8 Just a simple example, gnome-extra/nm-applet requires a polkit auth
9 agent (not present in RDEPEND atm -- bug!) in order to handle wifi
10 passwords, etc.
11 But the same applet can be used in both GNOME and LXDE, making
12 lxpolkit a better choice over polkit-gnome for the latter.
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14 My proposal is to create a virtual pkg listing all the polkit auth
15 agent implementations and make pkgs depend on it.
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17 --
18 Fabio Erculiani