PolicyKit 0.90 (pre-)release

Michael Biebl mbiebl at gmail.com
Sun Feb 1 13:16:06 PST 2009


Just curious: Why the rename from PolicyKit to polkit and
PolicyKit-gnome to polkit-gnome?

Would you like package descriptions to be updated and use the new names?

I also find it a bit ugly, that you tag a -1 to each and every
instance, even the D-Bus name.

Which brings me to my next concern: Apparently you want to have those
versions to be completely co-installable. What happens to already
granted permissions, will they be migrated, will we have two databases
which are completely out of sync?

This brings me to the question, why have co-installability at all? Why
does PolicyKit 0.90 not simply provide the the legacy backwards
compatible interfaces (libs and D-Bus) and simply imports and converts
the exising authentication db on first run.

Cheers,
Michael

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