On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 14:22 +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > > because menu package doesn't make sure there is at least one GUI: > > Suggests: gksu | kdebase-bin | kdebase-runtime | sux > > Yeah so it's not exactly what I meant. I was talking about some “gain > root access” in a desktop environment way. Something DE could depend on > to be. Maybe it's useless, maybe the only people interested are non > gnome people using gnome apps like gdm or system-config-printer. I am planning to do a rewrite of gksu that would be installable in paralel with the current one but using only PolicyKit as a backend. That will make the number of dependencies gksu has drop to a minimum (even gtk+ will probably get dropped!), so you would be able to always use gksu, provided that your DE environment provides its implementation of PolicyKit's AuthenticationAgent. That may take some time, though, as I've been planning to only really hammer a releasable version during debcamp, so it will not be ready for Lenny, unless anyone is willing to write that beast before I do =). Notice that the real solution to the 'do stuff as root' problem is to use PolicyKit, in my opinion, having whatever requires root become a dbus system service. See you, -- Gustavo Noronha Silva <kov@debian.org> Debian Project
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