On Mon, 2010-02-15 at 12:10 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > That's correct. This is frankly a 'realistic' decision, on the basis > that the PackageKit maintainer believes updating packages should be > allowed for a regular user by default and intends to implement this, and > I don't want to dictate this decision via the policy (that's not really > what we're writing the policy for), so I'd rather just go with PK's > choice there. The justification I remember for it was that authentication dialogs should be for "exceptional" situations, not for things that might regularly need to occur such as updates, and to avoid lulling users into blinding typing passwords into dialogs every time they are presented just to get stuff done. Tim. */
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