Fwd: PolicyKit-KDE destiny

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Fri Dec 19 17:43:24 CET 2008


Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> On 19.12.08 15:19:54, Matt Williams wrote:
>> On Friday 19 December 2008 14:41:42 Allen Winter wrote:
>>> Forwarding to the Release Team.
>>>
>>> My opinion on this was to defer to those who know the issues
>>> much better than I.  IOW: I'm happy either way.
>>>
>>> ----------  Forwarded Message  ----------
>>>
>>> Subject: PolicyKit-KDE destiny
>>> Date: Friday 19 December 2008
>>> From: Dario Freddi <drf54321 at gmail.com>
>>> To: kde-core-devel at kde.org
>>>
>>> Hello everyone,
>>>
>>> After spending some time in KDEreview, I think it's time for taking a
>>> decision about the destiny of PolicyKit-KDE. Basically the decision, based
>>> on the proposals we had in the last discussion, is whether going for a
>>> freeze except, or place it in extragear to allow packaging for distros and
>>> throw it in trunk for KDE 4.3.
>>>
>>> I'd like to point again that this does not introduce new APIs or anything
>>> critical, it's just a client for using PolicyKit inside KDE without the
>>> need for the GNOME interface
>>>
>>> After some discussion I'll do whatever was decided.
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> Dario
>> Where exactly is this to end up? I guess kdebase but which part? runtime or 
>> apps?
> 
> IMHO apps, as its not a runtime dependency for all kde apps.

disagree, (as I understand it), policy-kde is not a standalone app, but 
a runtime component for policykit-using apps.

-- Rex


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