On Thu, 2022-01-27 at 00:57 +0000, Sérgio Basto wrote: > On Thu, 2022-01-27 at 07:48 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > > On 27/01/2022 07:18, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > On Wed, 2022-01-26 at 14:21 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > > > > But that was then, and this is now. Does anything in Workstation > > > > use > > > > pkexec? Does anything in KDE use it? > > > $ sudo dnf erase polkit > > > Error: > > > Problem: The operation would result in removing the following > > > protected packages: plasma-desktop > > > (try to add '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages) > > > > > > I've no idea why plasma-desktop needs pkexec. > > > > FWIW, I moved pkexe out of /usr/bin and rebooted my VM. I found no > > problems with the minimal testing I've done > > So, I doesn't seem plasma-desktop uses pkexec in the normal course of > > events. > > I think you just need pkexec for admin things. like add a printer ... AIUI, modern admin things should not need it, because they should use better polkit mechanisms to gain privileges only as and when they need them. pkexec was (as I understand it) always a hack to allow old admin tools which were not updated to keep working. I'm hoping a modern KDE install shouldn't have any of those any more. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA IRC: adamw | Twitter: adamw_ha https://www.happyassassin.net _______________________________________________ kde mailing list -- kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to kde-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
