On 6/20/23 05:22, didier gaumet wrote:
Le 20/06/2023 à 09:13, gene heskett a écrit :
That needs a better explanation, Felix. As I see it, wayland can't run
as root, so no app that needs root works with wayland. Since package
managers with a gui need wayland, all the package managers that do
have a gui, are now dead except gnome packages, a poor but usable
substitute whose search function seems broken to me.
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Hello Gene,
Sorry but I do think you are confusing things:
- a problem being precisely that nowadays apps do not "need root".
For years, due to security reasons, it has been avoided to run whole GUI
apps (or a whole graphical environment like Xorg) as root.
What is done nowadays is according privileged access to *parts* of
these apps that demand it, via a Polkit mechanism:
https://www.freedesktop.org/software/polkit/docs/latest/polkit.8.html
- Synaptic does not need Wayland, it can run on Wayland.
- On a standard Debian 12 (Gnome) installation, Synaptic works OOTB
I am not a gnome fan. Packagekit says all 157 synaptic dependencies are
present and accounted for, but it will not run here, bitching about
wayland and root.
So IMNSHO, there must be a dependency that isn't satisfied on an xfce4
system. What am I missing?
Thanks Didier.
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Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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