Miloslav Trmač (mitr(a)volny.cz) said:
> A concrete action that we are going to take is to split the
polkit daemon into its own subpackage. Then minimal / certifiable installs can contain
clients that are using the polkit libraries, without pulling in the daemon. Polkit clients
are already expected to handle this situation and fall back to allow only uid 0. All of
this is documented in
Hm, I don't like that much. Having two completely separate
authorization code paths in many software components makes it very
likely that the less frequently used code path will be buggy at least
in some components.
Applications are already supposed to be able to cope with polkitd not
being present; it's not really an authorization code path as much as
it is just good defensive coding.
Bill