PolicyKit + KDE

[Thiago Macieira]

Em Quarta-feira 2. Setembro 2009, às 00.03.47, John Tapsell escreveu:
> Hi all,
> 
>   The problem is "make install" in kdelibs/kdebase  has traditionally
> only installed files to your $KDEDIR directory.  However with
> policykit requires files to be installed elsewhere.  For example
> ksysguard now needs to install to:
> 
> /etc/dbus-1/system.d/org.kde.ksysguard.processlisthelper.conf
> /usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/org.kde.ksysguard.processlisthelper.servi
> ce /usr/share/PolicyKit/policy/org.kde.ksysguard.processlisthelper.policy
> 
> To do so requires root privillages and modifies the main system - no
> longer giving us the possibility of playing with one version of kde
> which having another installed.
> 
> I can't really see any good solution.  At minimum we could modify the
> build files so that it doesn't fail if you run make install as a
> normal user, although this means that any app requiring root rights
> would fail with authorization errors.  Perhaps this is sufficiently
> good.
> 
> This would also prevent policy kit from working if KDE is on a network
> share - a common setup in universities.  I don't know how much of a
> problem this would be.

I've argued this before in kde-buildsystem:

Do not *ever* install files outside $prefix unless the user specifically selected 
such paths in the ./configure script. Even if that means the installation is 
not useful -- print a warning after install, if necessary, to indicate that 
some further setting up is needed.

I have local fixes to kdesupport and kdebase to fix those "transgressions" 
already (QCA installs to Qt's directory; kdebase install's to Python's 
directory).
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