[arch-general] policykit vs polkit

[Ionut Biru]

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.

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Ionut