PolicyKit-authentication-agents in Fedora

[Matthias Clasen]

On Thu, 2010-04-08 at 14:19 -0400, Seth Vidal wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 8 Apr 2010, Christoph Wickert wrote:
> 
> >>>      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
> 
> 
> I'm all ears - tell me another way of how we should know that of 3 items 
> one should be chosen over the others?
> 

One interesting criterium might be 'pulls in the least uninstalled
deps'. That would probably handle a lot of cases like the one at hand
nicely.