Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> I'd like to talk in more detail about this with someone, but nobody on
> #gentoo-guis seemed to know why PackageKit wouldn't work for the simple
> (no USE flag changes) case. Should I try the -guis mailing list instead?
Looking at the current feature set of PackageKit, t
On 20:22 Tue 13 Nov , Markus Ullmann wrote:
> Doug Klima schrieb:
> > While I haven't had much time to work on the bits, Gentopia does contain
> > PolicyKit (though the 0.7 snapshots that appear do have some issues and
> > you should stick to the 0.6 series). It's hopefully going to be the way
Markus Ullmann wrote:
> Doug Klima schrieb:
>
>> While I haven't had much time to work on the bits, Gentopia does contain
>> PolicyKit (though the 0.7 snapshots that appear do have some issues and
>> you should stick to the 0.6 series). It's hopefully going to be the way
>> forward for Gentoo to
Doug Klima schrieb:
> While I haven't had much time to work on the bits, Gentopia does contain
> PolicyKit (though the 0.7 snapshots that appear do have some issues and
> you should stick to the 0.6 series). It's hopefully going to be the way
> forward for Gentoo to use PolicyKit. As many may know,
Steve Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> > Steve Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> I've always used EUID for the root check, eg:
> > Which is just as bad.
> No, it's better for the reason given: it doesn't require login as
> root. Use of ((EUID)) is also quicker.
Capabilites
On Thu, 08 Nov 2007 18:22:48 +
Steve Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > if [[ ${UID} -ne 0 ]]; then
> >
> > We've always told people not to do that. Capabilities required by
> > eselect modules should be tested by attempting to perform the
> > action, not by some arbitrary query done on UIDs
Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> if [[ ${UID} -ne 0 ]]; then
>
> We've always told people not to do that. Capabilities required by
> eselect modules should be tested by attempting to perform the action,
> not by some arbitrary query done on UIDs or groups. Being UID 0 doesn't
> mean you're allowed to do
