[packagekit] DBUS configuration

Richard Hughes hughsient at gmail.com
Tue Feb 26 10:09:03 PST 2008


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.

Richard.





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