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On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 9:50 PM, Fabio Erculiani <lxnay@g.o> wrote: |
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> We have actually 3 polkit agent implementations in Portage: |
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> gnome-extra/polkit-gnome |
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> lxde-base/lxpolkit |
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> sys-auth/polkit-kde-agent |
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There's one more: gnome-base/gnome-shell |
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GNOME Shell has its own polkit-agent implementation, which means that |
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neither of these three should be running when GNOME Shell is running, |
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otherwise they'll prevent the shell from showing well-integrated |
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dialogs. |
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The fallback mode still needs a separate polkit agent, though. |
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> I guess a virtual is required. |
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> Just a simple example, gnome-extra/nm-applet requires a polkit auth |
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> agent (not present in RDEPEND atm -- bug!) in order to handle wifi |
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> passwords, etc. |
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> But the same applet can be used in both GNOME and LXDE, making |
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> lxpolkit a better choice over polkit-gnome for the latter. |
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Actually, polkit-gnome is more like polkit-gtk. It has the same deps |
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as lxpolkit (afaict), and is more widely used than lxpolkit. |
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In addition, Davidz has stopped maintaining polkit-gnome, so we can |
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stop worrying about him doing silly things to it. |
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> My proposal is to create a virtual pkg listing all the polkit auth |
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> agent implementations and make pkgs depend on it. |
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I'm ambivalent about this. I think I agree with what Samuli already said. |
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~Nirbheek Chauhan |
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Gentoo GNOME+Mozilla Team |
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