-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On Fri, 2025-07-18 at 15:27 +0100, Peter Blackman wrote: > Yet another choice! > (Switching to #1090384)
Thanks :) > > FWIW I did a little survey on what the other distributions are doing; > > Arch polkit-gnome > Fedora xfce-polkit > Mageia mate-polkit > Mandriva xfce-polkit > SuSE polkit-gnome And thanks for that survey. polkit-gnome is what I currently use (I have policykit-1-gnome installed) but I understand that it's going away so it's not a good candidate. If xfce-polkit was actually maintained upstream and integrated under the Xfce project umbrella it would make a lot of sense (even though it's a bit of a duplicate with mate-polkit). > > > I don't now think that me attempting an MR for this bug (when opinions > differ as to what that should contain) is likely to help, and will just > slow things down. Yeah agreed, you might just lose your time and burn yourself out. > > Any dependency would solve the issue of users ending up with no > authentication agent. Choices have little downside, > as the agents don't do anything unless enabled, > and users having issues can always install something else. At that point I'm likely to use: Recommends: mate-polkit | polkit-1-auth-agent That way mate-polkit will be installed by default if no other agent is installed. That still means people already having another desktop installed might not get a running agent (because of the OnlyShowIn part, especially since packages with Provides: polkit-1-auth-agent include gnome-shell or cinnamon) but I think I'm ok with that. Besides this bug I don't have the feeling that a lot of people are actually missing a polkit agent (we're not flooded with report, contrary to other bugs). Regards, - -- Yves-Alexis -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEzBAEBCAAdFiEE8vi34Qgfo83x35gF3rYcyPpXRFsFAmh6XysACgkQ3rYcyPpX RFuo+AgAxd2CGgNTA3ytKsonc3bfnkSzhMMc6iXubvXYL71LGP5CUhZHqCqKdqKR 9sXJk3pbIjBfEck/QVQUDRjySr0O3VkRhJW4CCE77ZthzmVq/rLaUJBJDYDB1FQF 9IdyxyVOyAHBVc/VyeABgz0+QNsh55Y+QKh+Y+XDJ0JRJse54FLglH2QDLv9LO3n w8BXuqB90D7S6gAqWiFqRyH0oThWo+TeRp2z3JMBYzHMVklyDctHf90nZUQlkuoB Yrqzxeib1GrfsCHJb0q2kG0qDz24pAMpX1nbo84Jh9Q4Cqlo/Fn46xr5EcgYPIyR vXk8P9RkNtRt8l2zj+Amvbe0HVtvSw== =qAMB -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
