On Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 8:15 PM Adam Williamson <adamwill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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. I wouldn't be surprised if KDE still needs it in places. The only reason Calamares doesn't need it, for example, is because it was patched long ago to use kdesu because pkexec doesn't expose theming variables on Fedora like it does on other distributions. I would prefer to switch back to pkexec, but then Calamares looks incredibly ugly... -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ 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
