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Re: [PATCH 4/4] gnu: Add polkit service.
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Ludovic Courtès |
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Re: [PATCH 4/4] gnu: Add polkit service. |
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Tue, 21 Apr 2015 10:26:44 +0200 |
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Andy Wingo <address@hidden> skribis:
> On Sat 18 Apr 2015 22:49, address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
[...]
>> but that makes me wonder whether there’s
>> a piece missing. Does polkitd need to be given some sort of
>> configuration or a list of applications being managed?
>
> It might need a list of applications or a profile directory. The deal
> is that applications install .conf snippets into a certain polkit
> directory, which should probably be one of those symlink trees, like
> dbus. The "service" side of polkit is something of a work in progress,
> but I figured works-in-progress aren't so bad given that polkit is
> completely unusable currently (AFAICS).
So does polkitd provide useful functionality when it is not passed a
list of application .conf files, as is the case with the current patch?
I’m happy to apply it if it does, but otherwise I guess we should add
the missing bits.
Thanks!
Ludo’.