[packagekit] DBUS configuration

[Sebastian Heinlein]

Quoting Robin Norwood <rnorwood at redhat.com>:

> 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.

Since in Debian/Ubuntu I would use separate users for the daemon and  
the backend and don't want to ship a patch, I introduced a new  
configure option --with-backend-user, which defaults to the daemon  
user. See 8a7a56deae9b9684f3c79dee7f58214e354c9ca8


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