On Mon, 04 Feb 08 12:40, Russ Allbery wrote: > 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.
OK, nice. > > 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. Yes, sounds good. So we really should make it some kind of policy to use su-to root and not to depend on any graphical su-wrapper if there is no really good reason. Cheers, Armin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
