[packagekit] DBUS configuration

[Robin Norwood]

On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:39:02 -0500
Robin Norwood <rnorwood at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:09:03 +0100
> Richard Hughes <hughsient at gmail.com> 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.
> 
> Yeah, I like that plan.  We'll see what the debian guys say, though.

This is done, now.  I replaced 'root' with @PACKAGEKIT_USER@
throughout, and remove explicit references to 'root'.  The way things
are now, packagekitd and the dbus backend daemons both run as root.  If
anyone doesn't like it that way, feel free to fix it.

-RN

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Robin Norwood
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