Control: retitle -1 gamemode-daemon: needs pkexec as a dependency

On Sat, 08 Apr 2023 at 14:16:59 -0600, Safir Secerovic wrote:
> gamemode needs policykit-1 package installed in order to work properly.
> It cannot set the cpu governor nor apply gpu optimisations, since it used 
> pkexec binary to 
> intermediate on behalf of the user.

policykit-1 is a transitional package. If gamemode runs pkexec(1)
as you say (I haven't checked) then it should depend on the pkexec
package instead.

(For completeness: if it queries polkit directly via its D-Bus API and
doesn't use pkexec(1), then it should depend on polkitd but not pkexec.)

    smcv

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