Re: [DNG] why is polkit needed?

2020-03-07 Thread tom
On Fri, 06 Mar 2020 15:25:55 -0700 tekHedd wrote: > On Fri, Mar 6, 2020, at 12:51 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 05, 2020 at 02:09:37PM +0100, Didier Kryn wrote: > > > Le 03/03/2020 à 23:37, tekHedd a écrit : > > > > > > > > So, I would consider rewriting polkit and dbus from scratch. >

Re: [DNG] why is polkit needed?

2020-03-07 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting tekHedd (tekh...@byteheaven.net): > Cool software doesn't really happen without the ability for apps to > communicate and read/write the state of the system and communicate > with other user level components. If so, so what? This doesn't in any way suggest need for a new extra system aut

Re: [DNG] FF now defaults to DNS-over-HTTPS for US

2020-03-07 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Rainer Weikusat via Dng (dng@lists.dyne.org): > But this is not the case. There's nothing which stops users from running > their own, fully capable resolver locally[*] (or somewhere on a local > network) and thus, not make a comprehensive browsing history available > to any third party. R

Re: [DNG] Installer images for armel, armhf and ppc64 need testing

2020-03-07 Thread fsmithred via Dng
On 3/6/20 6:30 PM, fsmithred wrote: > On 3/2/20 7:54 PM, fsmithred wrote: >> We built beowulf installer images for armel, armhf and ppc64el. If you >> have appropriate hardware, please test and report. >> >> armel (no mini.iso for these. I hope you know what to do.) >> https://pkgmaster.devuan.org/

Re: [DNG] why is polkit needed?

2020-03-07 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 06/03/2020 à 20:51, Hendrik Boom a écrit : What are the actual requirements for a dbus-like system? Requirements that would allow a completely different design?     There must have been requirements. At the time KDE had its own middleware called DCOP and Gnome had or was developping its ow