Is kpackage a KDE F12-Alpha blocker?

[Rex Dieter]

Martin Kho wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Since the start of the F12 development cycle authentication in kpackagekit is 
> broken (due to the transition to PolicyKit1?). Bug report [1] shows the issue. 
> Gnome packagekit seems to be working as can be seen in bug report [2].
> 
> As a temporary work around one can use:
> 1) yum at the command prompt
> 2) gnome packagekit and gnome-authentication-agent
> 
> Is it an idea to enable gnome-packagekit as long as the kpackagekit issue 
> isn't solved? Some other thoughts?


Not alpha blocker I don't think, not sure, *but* an F12Blocker certainly 
to have a pk1-compatible authentication agent available in KDE.

-- Rex