Re: PolicyKit-authentication-agents in Fedora

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On Fri, 2010-04-09 at 12:54 -0400, David Zeuthen wrote:

> 
>  http://hal.freedesktop.org/docs/polkit/polkit-agents.html
> 
> The way it should work is this
> 
>  - polkit-gnome, lxpolkit, polkit-kde etc. should NOT provide an
>    autostart desktop file. These packages really just provide code; in
>    particular they MUST NOT encode policy e.g. make assumptions that
>    people would want to run their code.
> 
>  - Packages containing environments like GNOME, KDE, LXDE should
>    - Require a suitable polkit authentication agent, e.g. polkit-gnome
>    - Ensure itself the authentication agent is started
>      - this can be done via hard-coding stuff in gnome-session.c or
>        using an autostart file or whatever

We should probably bring polkit-gnome in compliance with this, then. It
still ships an autostart file.

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