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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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Cheers, Andreas |
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Andreas K. Huettel |
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Gentoo Linux developer |
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dilfridge@g.o |
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http://www.akhuettel.de/ |