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Just after posting this, I realized that KDE 4.4 uses policykit, but 4.5 |
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uses the new polkit. I guess that's why I never needed to mess with any |
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configuration files. |
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On 07/29/2010 03:38 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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> Btw, I think now the package is "polkit", not "policykit"; I think the |
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> first replaced the second. If you enable the "policykit" USE flag for |
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> kdelibs and consolekit, only sys-auth/polkit gets installed, not |
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> sys-auth/policykit. However, if you enable that USE flag globally in |
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> make.conf, then I think both get installed because some package probably |
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> depend on the older package. |
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> Anyway, I don't have a "policykit.conf". Or if I have one, I don't know |
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> where it is and I never edited it. And yet everything seems to be |
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> working just fine here. |
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> On 07/29/2010 03:31 AM, Andrey Vul wrote: |
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>> Ugh. Now i'll actually have to config policykit.conf. |
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>> For some reason, match group=wheel return yes fails so much. Somehow |
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>> the mount-ro defaults to no every time |
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>> On 2010-07-28, Nikos Chantziaras<realnc@×××××.de> wrote: |
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>>> On 07/28/2010 11:54 PM, Andrey Vul wrote: |
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>>>> On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 14:50, Nikos Chantziaras<realnc@×××××.de> |
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>>>> wrote: |
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>>>>> On 07/28/2010 08:23 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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>>>>>> |
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>>>>>> On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 19:31:21 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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>>>>>>> And why do you want to remove it in the first place? It's not gonna |
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>>>>>>> eat your cat. |
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>>>>>> |
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>>>>>> Although it may kill your crew. |
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>>>>> |
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>>>>> I think most people don't understand what X used HAL for. They think |
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>>>>> that |
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>>>>> they can remove HAL and still have stuff like USB |
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>>>>> hotplugging/automounting |
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>>>>> working. But that's wrong. Gnome/KDE use HAL for this, not X. And if |
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>>>>> you |
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>>>>> disable HAL completely, that stuff will stop working. |
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>>>>> |
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>>>>> |
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>>>> |
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>>>> E.g. solid-hardware for HAL-mounting devices by uuid/volume-id. |
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>>>> I just got rid of policykit - too much trouble. |
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>>>> But I kept HAL because it's very useful. |
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>>> |
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>>> If you're on KDE, you will need policykit again in the future, since |
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>>> with KDE 4.5 (to be released in a matter of days) it's not really |
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>>> optional anymore. I got hit by this when updating to it (now at RC3): |
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>>> |
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>>> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=244444 |
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