On Wed, 19 Feb 2020 01:23:47 -0800
tom <tom@???> wrote:

> 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.
> >
> >
> >
>
> Just found a drop-in replacement for gksudo. It's called lxqt-sudo.
> https://github.com/lxqt/lxqt-sudo
> It works pretty well.

Will it work even if I'm not using lxqt? Does it stand alone?

SteveT

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