polkit changes in f19

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Thu Jan 31 21:39:26 UTC 2013


Matthias Clasen wrote:

> I just realized that there is a change to the way polkit is packaged in
> f19 that spin maintainers should be aware of: the polkit package is just
> the service, which only provides the default policy as specified in the
> action definitions now. If you want or need support for js rules, you need
> to pull in the polkit-js-engine package. I've just made this change for
> the desktop spin.

Thanks.

One question, if polkit-js-engine is optional now, does that imply there's a 
way to define polkit rules without using js-engine?

-- rex



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