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From: Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] virtual/polkit-agent virtual pkg
Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2011 08:14:15
Message-Id: 4E6727D4.9080705@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] virtual/polkit-agent virtual pkg by Maxim Koltsov
1 On 09/06/2011 07:44 PM, Maxim Koltsov wrote:
2 > If user is emerging some polkit-requiring package on DE-less system,
3 > it will pull big bunch of KDE, GNOME, etc. pacakges, which is not
4 > desired. Also, nm-applet and others can be set up with localauthority
5 > files, without help of polkit agents. I don't think virtual will solve
6 > this case.
7 >
8
9 +1
10
11 Even if ebuild deps on agent, we can't ensure the user runs the agent
12 and which agent he wants.
13 So this is a depend that can't be put on ebuilds, needs extra steps from
14 user in any case.
15 The USE flags "gtk" and "kde" are there already as convinience in
16 polkit's ebuild pulling some agents...
17
18 So the solution is not to create a virtual, but rather remove the
19 specific agent depend on the offending ebuild