Armin Berres <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Good question. > At least for KDE 4 Apps there is no Problem -- kdesu from KDE 4 is > always around if kdelibs5 (the KDE 4 libraries) is installed. > When you have a KDE 3 Desktop kdebase-bin is normally around so kdesu > should be there. > What about Gnome?
It's pulled in by gnome-desktop-environment, so not quite as aggressively as KDE, but it's fairly reliably there. > Or Xfce? Is gksu installed by default? Xfce probably doesn't pull in any of the various wrappers, so the default on Xfce would probably be su in an xterm. > If yes I'd say programms should simply use su-to-root and not specify > any dependency like the above at all. I'd also say that packages which > just depend on a special *su implementation (just gksu and not > kdebase-bin e.g.) should be considered buggy. There is no reason for a > KDE user to install gksu and and no reason for a Gnome user to install > kdebase-bin if there is already a *su implementation around. I don't > know how many packages have this problem, but gparted just depends on > gksu for example. I bet it could also use kdesu, if su-to-root would be > used. An exception could possibly be made for things that really make no sense to run outside of that desktop environment, but yes, I generally agree. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
