Emerge and User Account Control

[Andre Heinecke]

Hi,
I recently used Emerge at Home on my Windows 7 System with User Account 
Control enabled. With every patch call i got a user account control checkbox. 
When i researched the problem i landed on this blog post:
http://butnottoohard.blogspot.com/2010/01/windows-7-chronicles-gnu-patch-mtexe.html

That describes how UAC checks for Keywords in applications and then "guesses" 
that this application is going to need higher privileges. Also described at:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb756960.aspx

Since that behavior also appears with some KDE Windows programs (kconf_update, 
update_mime_types, and so on) and is really disturbing on new Windows Systems 
i think it is an issue for us. 

To fix that i would propose that we add a "post install" step for the affected 
applications which would embed a manifest, as described in the links. 
The big problem i see with that is that for the "intended" way you need the 
manifest tool or a similar application to do that, and i do not want to get 
Visual Studio / MS Windows SDK's.

So does someone know a Free Software alternative to embed manifests files or 
has a better solution how to fix the UAC issues? 
(A Python script to embed manifest files in a way that Windows can read them 
would be cool ;) )

Greetings
Andre

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