[arch-general] policykit vs polkit
Hi, I just found out that policykit on my package is no longer needed. Because it looked strange to me a took a look at other packages and found polkit package. What is the difference between these two (policykit and polkit)? Both seems to provide the same package. regards, Lukas
Am 09.02.2010 19:11, schrieb Lukáš Jirkovský:
Hi, I just found out that policykit on my package is no longer needed. Because it looked strange to me a took a look at other packages and found polkit package. What is the difference between these two (policykit and polkit)? Both seems to provide the same package.
policykit is dead and being replace by polkit. I think now that KDE 4.4 uses polkit, policykit might in fact be obsolete.
On Tue, 2010-02-09 at 19:17 +0100, Thomas Bächler wrote:
Am 09.02.2010 19:11, schrieb Lukáš Jirkovský:
Hi, I just found out that policykit on my package is no longer needed. Because it looked strange to me a took a look at other packages and found polkit package. What is the difference between these two (policykit and polkit)? Both seems to provide the same package.
policykit is dead and being replace by polkit. I think now that KDE 4.4 uses polkit, policykit might in fact be obsolete.
policykit and policykit-gnome will die soon. At this moment only pulseaudio in community uses it, but I'm sure someone has ported that to polkit also.
On Wed, 2010-02-10 at 00:04 +0100, Jan de Groot wrote:
policykit and policykit-gnome will die soon. At this moment only pulseaudio in community uses it, but I'm sure someone has ported that to polkit also.
I just checked upstream and Fedora: either the pulseaudio package in community is outdated, or it contains a bullshit dependency. Later versions of pulseaudio don't call into policykit for realtime permissions anymore, but rely on being started with realtime permissions, or, if it's available, requesting realtime capabilities through realtimekit.
I just checked upstream and Fedora: either the pulseaudio package in community is outdated, or it contains a bullshit dependency.
it's a wrong dependency (together with some other) I've already submited a bug report. http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/18258 -- damjan
On 10 February 2010 01:25, Damjan Georgievski
I just checked upstream and Fedora: either the pulseaudio package in community is outdated, or it contains a bullshit dependency.
it's a wrong dependency (together with some other) I've already submited a bug report. http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/18258
-- damjan
Thank you all for the explanation. It seems I poke a wasp nest :-) but I'm happy that it turned out to be constructive discussion (finding out that PA doesn't need it) Best, Lukas
On 02/10/2010 01:04 AM, Jan de Groot wrote:
On Tue, 2010-02-09 at 19:17 +0100, Thomas Bächler wrote:
Am 09.02.2010 19:11, schrieb Lukáš Jirkovský:
Hi, I just found out that policykit on my package is no longer needed. Because it looked strange to me a took a look at other packages and found polkit package. What is the difference between these two (policykit and polkit)? Both seems to provide the same package.
policykit is dead and being replace by polkit. I think now that KDE 4.4 uses polkit, policykit might in fact be obsolete.
policykit and policykit-gnome will die soon. At this moment only pulseaudio in community uses it, but I'm sure someone has ported that to polkit also.
http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/18258 i was looking at configure and it doesn't need it and changelog say that polkit code move removed since 09/2009. when pulseaudio is rebuild we are ready to remove it. -- Ionut
participants (5)
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Damjan Georgievski
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Ionut Biru
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Jan de Groot
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Lukáš Jirkovský
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Thomas Bächler