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Auteur: Arnt Karlsen
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Aan: dng
Onderwerp: Re: [DNG] policykit - another time ...
On Fri, 1 Jul 2016 17:30:30 +0200, Didier wrote in message
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> Le 01/07/2016 16:59, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult a écrit :
> > what I never really actually understood: what do we really need it
> > for ? what's the real-world problem behind to be solved ?
>
>      The real problem behind was to replace sudo by something more 
> complicated, for the sake of complication. sudo allows simple things
> to be done with simple config and complicated things with complicated 
> config. Policykit is better: all is complicated, the config and the 
> machinery to handle it, which is a tangle of daemons, sockets and, of 
> course, dbus and possibly systemd, obviously for the sake of
> entangling it as much as possible. Plus it replaces a single and
> simple command by a whole library.

>
>      Replacing a simple system with a complicated one, may be an
> amusing game, but should remain a game.

>
>      I expected most of the requests would be done by applications by 
> just invoking pkexec, which is a kind of replacement for sudo, but it
> is only true for some launchers, like the one of Synaptic (I have
> written my own replcement for pkexec and it works). But Policykit
> comes with several commands and I'm afraid Xfce4 applets, for
> example, make calls to the polkit library rather than invoke these
> commands.

>
>      Therefore, IMHO, we are left with two options: either elaborate
> a polkit-shim or discard applications which use it.

>
>      Didier


..is there no --without-policykit switch we can use to recompile?

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