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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