PolicyKit-authentication-agents in Fedora

[Christoph Wickert]

Am Donnerstag, den 08.04.2010, 13:37 -0400 schrieb Bill Nottingham:
> Christoph Wickert (christoph.wickert at googlemail.com) said: 
> > Suggestion:
> > GNOME and KDE use their agents, everything else, for example window
> > managers like icewm or openbox, gets lxpolkit.
> 
> I'd honestly prefer they use the GNOME one (maintained closer to the
> source, etc.) unless there are speicfic problems with it.

So far there are no problems, but when GConf2 or others get pulled in,
we might get into trouble. People are not using a lightweight WM in
order to install half of GNOME.

> > Rationale:
> >      2. lxpolkit is the smallest package.
> 
> 20k of code vs 70k of code? Is that really something worth caring about?
> (Yes, the GNOME PK agent ends up being about 300k installed, but given
> that it's translated into 30+ languages as opposed to lxpolkit's < 10...)

lxpolkit is very young, it was announced a week ago and the number of
translations is continuously rising.
Nevertheless I agree that polkit-gnome offers the most value: It has
more translations and it has the option to cache the password with a
nice tray icon.

> >      3. lxpolkit will be pulled in anyway due to the shortest name.
> 
> That's not a useful decision rationale.

I never said it is a useful decision rationale, it's something we cannot
avoid. I agree it's not useful, but please address your complainants to
the yum developers.

Let me repeat what I already said in my previous mail: I don't mind
polkit-gnome as default agent, but
      * I'm afraid that yum will choose lxpolkit
      * I'm afraid polkit-gnome will have more deps in the future
      * we cannot yet use OnlyShowIn=LXDE

> Bill

Regards,
Christoph