[packagekit] DBUS configuration

[Richard Hughes]

On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 22:53 +0100, Sebastian Heinlein wrote:
> Am Dienstag, den 26.02.2008, 19:27 +0100 schrieb Richard Hughes:
> > On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 13:25 -0500, David Zeuthen wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 19:09 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:
> > > > On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 12:44 -0500, Robin Norwood wrote:
> > > > > Does anyone use the PACKAGEKIT_USER business?  It evaluates to 'root'
> > > > > by default, so doesn't really have any effect unless it is set, aside
> > > > > from a slight performance penalty.  We should probably remove it from
> > > > > the shipping configs unless it really is for something.  I didn't want
> > > > > to just make the change for fear of breaking anyone's setup.
> > > > 
> > > > Well, it basically just was there for debian, IIRC they don't like
> > > > running things as root. Maybe we can just ensure that @PACKAGEKIT_USER@
> > > > is root by default, and cut out the explicit line. That might be best.
> > > 
> > > Uhm. Can packagekitd even sensibly run as non-root?
> > 
> > Well, as long as it's running as a user account that can run the tools
> > and blatter things on the hard drive, I guess so. Debian guys speak up
> > now please :-)
> 
> Quite funny. I was considering to make use of this feature in my
> packages during today's train ride.

You mean run the daemon as non-root?

> Would there be a sane way to avoid having to query the package cache as
> root by running a second backend as non root user?

Not really. I think that makes my head explode...

Richard.