On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 9:50 PM, Fabio Erculiani <lx...@gentoo.org> 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. -- ~Nirbheek Chauhan Gentoo GNOME+Mozilla Team
