Where does KAuth belong?
Stephen Kelly
steveire at gmail.com
Sat Sep 17 17:04:25 UTC 2011
Yury G. Kudryashov wrote:
> Stephen Kelly wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> KAuth became a tier1 library in the last week. It's nice to see it
>> separated out.
>>
>> However, it depends on Polkit-Qt, which is in `kdesupport` in the KDE 4
>> world currently.
>>
>> Polkit-Qt seems like something that would become a tier1 library if
>> that's what its developers go for.
>>
>> That would make libkauth tier2, right? I'll move it to the tier2
>> directory soonish unless someone else does, though that in itself doesn't
>> mean much.
> First of all, disclaimer: I'm not a KDE developer, I just submit patches
> sometimes...
That makes you part of KDE... sorry, no escape now :)
>
> As far as I understand, kauth can (does?) use different backends on
> different platforms, and polkit-qt-1 is "the" backend on Linux.
>
> I think that it should be clear that kauth does not depend on other tier1
> libraries except for polkit-qt-1. Not sure what is the best way to do
> this.
Right. We can revisit this stuff as we go along. Which tier a library is in
won't be so important/relevant I think once there are multiple git repos
containing the stuff.
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