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
Only for information, Will polkit support be added to gnome-2.24 or I will have to update to 2.26 for being able to use policykit in more apps (for now, I am only using it with networkmanager)
Thanks
At this time, there are no plans to add policykit to 2.24
Completely aside from the work, 2.24 is stable and policykit is not.
Please send those GNOME patches upstream.
We are. It’s sometimes a bit of work to get upstream to accept them, but we are certainly trying.
GNOME moving to git will help; we can maintain our patches in a git branch, and make them easier to keep up-to-date and easier to push into gnome.
OK, thanks for the info, I will wait a bit for now to update to gnome 2.26 as it’s the desktop used by most of my users, then, it needs to be “stable”
Thanks a lot
The fun part begins. Now it’s time to sort out profiles/package.mask and profiles/base/package.use.mask
Thanks for unmasking it.
Rob
s/have packagekit hard disabled/have policykit hard disabled/