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On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 1:07 PM, Dominique Michel |
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<dominique.michel@××××××.ch> wrote: |
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> It is at least 20 window managers / desktops in gentoo that know |
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> nothing about sys-auth/polkit, or can be installed without it, |
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> including ROX, Razor-QT, XFCE, afterstep, *box, enlightenement, fluxbox, |
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> fvwm, fvwm-crystal and wmaker. |
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As you yourself mention it, most of them are *window managers*, not |
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*desktop environments*. Of the ones above that undoubtedly qualify as |
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desktop environments (like Xfce), they can (and do) use polkit, even |
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if it is configurable. |
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> But, and this is a big but, the 3 desktop profiles in portage depend on |
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> polkit. |
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Because they are desktop environments, not only window managers. |
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> A desktop profile that doesn't depend on polkit can be easily done from |
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> the desktop profile with the following USE changes: |
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> USE="-consolekit -policykit -udisks -upower" |
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> Can such a desktop profile be incorporated in portage? |
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You can roll your own profile in /etc/portage/profile. Also, you can |
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set "-consolekit -policykit -udisks -upower" in |
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/etc/portage/make.conf. |
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The idea of the profiles (AFAIU), is to get a sensible set of defaults |
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for the *majority* of users. In the case of desktop users, this means |
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GNOME, KDE, and probably Xfce. You don't really need a profile per |
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every single window manager in the universe. You don't get a profile |
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for Emacs and another for vi. Hell, we systemd users don't have a |
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systemd profile (and honestly, I don't think we need it). |
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You don't want the kits? Mask them in /etc/portage/make.conf. Even |
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when I use the GNOME progile, that doesn't mask everything |
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KDE-related; I need to explicitly put "-kde -qt4" in my USE flags. I |
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don't think a gnome-only-and-please-exorcise-kde-and-qt-from-my-system |
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profile is necessary. Likewise, I don't think a |
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desktop-but-please-dont-wanna-use-kits profiles is worth the inodes it |
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would waste. |
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My 0.02 ${CURRENCY}? Set your USE flag, like everyone else. |
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Regards. |
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-- |
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Canek Peláez Valdés |
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Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación |
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Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México |
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