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Theo Chatzimichos wrote: |
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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. |
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Well, this user likes option 3. It is on and ready to go but we could |
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disable it if we didn't need/want it. Maybe this is a good addition to |
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the recently formed kde profile? |
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There's one vote. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |