Re: [RFC] virtual/polkit-agent virtual pkg

On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 9:50 PM, Fabio Erculiani <[email protected]> wrote:
> We have actually 3 polkit agent implementations in Portage:
>
> gnome-extra/polkit-gnome
> lxde-base/lxpolkit
> sys-auth/polkit-kde-agent
>

There's one more: gnome-base/gnome-shell

GNOME Shell has its own polkit-agent implementation, which means that
neither of these three should be running when GNOME Shell is running,
otherwise they'll prevent the shell from showing well-integrated
dialogs.

The fallback mode still needs a separate polkit agent, though.

> I guess a virtual is required.
> Just a simple example, gnome-extra/nm-applet requires a polkit auth
> agent (not present in RDEPEND atm -- bug!) in order to handle wifi
> passwords, etc.
> But the same applet can be used in both GNOME and LXDE, making
> lxpolkit a better choice over polkit-gnome for the latter.
>

Actually, polkit-gnome is more like polkit-gtk. It has the same deps
as lxpolkit (afaict), and is more widely used than lxpolkit.

In addition, Davidz has stopped maintaining polkit-gnome, so we can
stop worrying about him doing silly things to it.

> My proposal is to create a virtual pkg listing all the polkit auth
> agent implementations and make pkgs depend on it.
>

I'm ambivalent about this. I think I agree with what Samuli already said.

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~Nirbheek Chauhan

Gentoo GNOME+Mozilla Team