On Wed, 19 Feb 2020 00:35:26 -0800
tom <tom@???> wrote:

> Deprecated gksudo? Well thats pretty dumb. Any particular reason
> Devuan doesn't just fish around for the old gksudo git repo and
> continue that instead of dealing with this policykit mess of
> complexity? You can allow users in your a group for example
> 'installers' to run synaptic by editing sudo's config like so:
>
> %installers ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/sbin/synaptic
>
> This Policykit stuff just seems like completely unneeded and unstable
> cruft like systemd or pulseaudio.
>
> Thank you for clarifying though. I'm going to see about getting it
> working on Gentoo since I have more experience with ebuilds than I do
> with Debian packaging currently.
>
>
>

Oh, I just remembered. This would also be a very clean fix for being
about to shutdown and reboot in XFCE. using gksudo to ask sudo if the
user is allowed to manage the system's power state instead of policykit.

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