Am Donnerstag, den 08.04.2010, 13:37 -0400 schrieb Bill Nottingham:
Christoph Wickert (christoph.wickert(a)googlemail.com) said:
> Suggestion:
> GNOME and KDE use their agents, everything else, for example window
> managers like icewm or openbox, gets lxpolkit.
I'd honestly prefer they use the GNOME one (maintained closer to the
source, etc.) unless there are speicfic problems with it.
So far there are no problems, but when GConf2 or others get pulled in,
we might get into trouble. People are not using a lightweight WM in
order to install half of GNOME.
> Rationale:
> 2. lxpolkit is the smallest package.
20k of code vs 70k of code? Is that really something worth caring about?
(Yes, the GNOME PK agent ends up being about 300k installed, but given
that it's translated into 30+ languages as opposed to lxpolkit's < 10...)
lxpolkit is very young, it was announced a week ago and the number of
translations is continuously rising.
Nevertheless I agree that polkit-gnome offers the most value: It has
more translations and it has the option to cache the password with a
nice tray icon.
> 3. lxpolkit will be pulled in anyway due to the shortest
name.
That's not a useful decision rationale.
I never said it is a useful decision rationale, it's something we cannot
avoid. I agree it's not useful, but please address your complainants to
the yum developers.
Let me repeat what I already said in my previous mail: I don't mind
polkit-gnome as default agent, but
* I'm afraid that yum will choose lxpolkit
* I'm afraid polkit-gnome will have more deps in the future
* we cannot yet use OnlyShowIn=LXDE
Bill
Regards,
Christoph