[arch-general] policykit vs polkit

[Jan de Groot]

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.