CMake kauth_install_* with system kauth and user CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX

[Harald Sitter]

On 19.10.20 17:44, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> On Montag, 19. Oktober 2020 17:22:22 CEST Milian Wolff wrote:
>> On Montag, 19. Oktober 2020 17:21:28 CEST Harald Sitter wrote:
>>> I'm not sure it's a good idea, but we could treat this like
>>> KDE_INSTALL_USE_QT_SYS_PATHS. By default we'll simply install to
>>> $CMAKE_PREFIX/share/polkit-1/actions/ unless explicitly configured with
>>> KDE_INSTALL_USE_POLKIT_PATHS in which case we'll use whatever polkit uses.
>>> What sets this apart from qt_syspath of course is that not using the
>>> polkit path basically never makes sense as it'd be broken. So maybe the
>>> default state should be ON and when one is sure that polkit isn't needed
>>> one could turn it OFF.
>>
>> Installing something that's never going to be used - why? I would much
>> rather prefer making it explicit by saying:
>>
>> Either you install it to the correct path, or you don't install it at all.

Fair point

> FWIW, for a very similar problem (udev rules instead of polkit rules) bluez-qt 
> has the CMAKE flag INSTALL_UDEV_RULE to disable installation of udev rules.
> 
> If have this in my .kdesrc-buildrc:
> =====
> options bluez-qt
>     cmake-options -DINSTALL_UDEV_RULE=0
> end options
> =====
> 
> So, maybe add a KDE_INSTALL_POLKIT_RULE[S] (or ..._ACTION[S]) flag to allow 
> disabling the installation of polkit stuff.

+1

HS

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