On 1/27/22 10:50 AM, Adam Williamson wrote:
On Thu, 2022-01-27 at 08:30 +0100, Milan Crha wrote:
> On Wed, 2022-01-26 at 15:18 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
>> There are still over a dozen packages in the distro that
>> require it:
>
> Hi,
> the gnome-software also calls pkexec is some occasions, once when
> external appstream data is used (not a thing in Fedora, as far as I
> know) and when invoking fedora-third-party in some cases. There's no
> hard require for it in the .spec file.
Yeah, I actually started looking last night and found a few other
places too :/ gnome-control-center installs a `/usr/libexec/cc-remote-
login-helper` which is run by pkexec, for instance. So I guess we're
stuck with it :(
I have opened an issue upstream[0], as well as prototyped a pkexec free
approach[1]. If things go well I can look at gnome-software as well. I
really do think splitting out and eventually dropping pkexec is a
worthwhile goal.
Feedback welcome!
[0] -
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-control-center/-/issues/1604
[1] -
https://gitlab.gnome.org/nielsenb-jf/gnome-control-center/-/tree/41.2-no_...