Re: [PATCH 4/4] gnu: Add polkit service.

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com> skribis:

> On Sat 18 Apr 2015 22:49, ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

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>> but that makes me wonder whether there’s
>> a piece missing.  Does polkitd need to be given some sort of
>> configuration or a list of applications being managed?
>
> It might need a list of applications or a profile directory.  The deal
> is that applications install .conf snippets into a certain polkit
> directory, which should probably be one of those symlink trees, like
> dbus.  The "service" side of polkit is something of a work in progress,
> but I figured works-in-progress aren't so bad given that polkit is
> completely unusable currently (AFAICS).

So does polkitd provide useful functionality when it is not passed a
list of application .conf files, as is the case with the current patch?

I’m happy to apply it if it does, but otherwise I guess we should add
the missing bits.

Thanks!

Ludo’.