remove polkit from core?

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Tue Nov 13 20:44:23 UTC 2012


Miloslav Trmač (mitr at 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


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