PolicyKit unmasked
Ladies and Gentlemen, PolicyKit has been unmasked. I’ve tested it, and it seems to work well enough, and to not be too intrusive in it’s current default setup.
If you have issues, please file bugs. If there’s missing policy, please file bugs. If something is too annoying, please file bugs. If something is horribly insecure, please file bugs. We want to get this right.
In the meantime, I’m going to be going through the policy installed by other Distros to see how it differs from what we’re shipping by default. Probably packages that currently have policykit hard disabled will start adding USE flags to enable it.
It’s unlikely at this point that PK will become required on Gentoo; we don’t generally work that way, and the Gnome team, at least, has been patching the heck out of upstream packages to keep it optional. I don’t see that changing for 2.26 at least.
*EDIT* s/packagekit/policykit/, thanks to MiKeL
