On 11/03/2011 07:20 AM, Christian PERRIER wrote: > Quoting Bill Allombert (bill.allomb...@math.u-bordeaux1.fr): > >>> What about moving the su-to-root binary to a different binary package ? >>> Bill what's your PoV about spliting it ? >> >> I am not very keen creating a new Debian package for a 3kB script. > > > In that case, I think that the above discussion showed that there is a > quite strong rationale for this: don't have packages depending on menu > just because they need su-to-root. And, as Russ mentioned, it is like > 3 years than many people are waiting for this to happen. I suspect > that the aggressive NMU button is appealing for many. > > From my understanding, trying to have a perfect solution (xdg-su) has > delayed progress on that matter for a really long time....leading to > the exact opposite : enforcing many packages to depend on menu while > several of them probably wouldn't otherwise. > > In French, I would call that "vente forcée". > > From what I understand, xdg-su will not happen. On the other hand, an > easy fix (a new binary package) can help doing progress here. Isn't it > time to do it?
It seems many uses of su-to-root could be replaced by pkexec (package policykit-1), no? Or is there something wrong with that approach? Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4eb2dd66.6080...@debian.org
