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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Moving polkit-kde-agent-1 to kde/workspace
From:       David Edmundson <david () davidedmundson ! co ! uk>
Date:       2014-11-29 20:23:48
Message-ID: CAGeFrHBZBS7cRTc5HEudaVnb5LubFhKDavpZYpaD0TNiL1N64A () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 4:58 AM, Ian Wadham <iandw.au@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi David,
>
> On 29/11/2014, at 1:19 AM, David Edmundson wrote:
> > Polkit-kde-agent is a small daemon that runs in the user's session bus,
> and prompts a user for authentication when a process on the same session
> requests polkit authorisation.
> >
> > It is currently in extragear/base, however given it is an essential part
> of the workspace in order to use polkit actions I would like to move it to
> be part of the Plasma release.
> >
> > This was discussed on plasma-devel with positive reception from active
> maintainers, I am asking on core-devel to confirm no-one has any objections
> to us making this move.
>
> If you can possibly avoid it, please do not put Polkit-kde-agent in a
> Plasma-only module (as has happened to Dr Konqi).  That is if p-k-a
> is something that might need to run on a platform where Plasma is
> not used, such as Windows or Apple OS X.
>
>
To clarify the proposition is just moving the repo metadata to be in the
core kde/workspace folder rather than extragear so it's part of the Plasma
release.
No code is actually moving between repos so it shouldn't make it any harder
for an external platform to use. Though as Ben says, you probably wouln't
want to.

David

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<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Nov \
29, 2014 at 4:58 AM, Ian Wadham <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a \
href="mailto:iandw.au@gmail.com" target="_blank">iandw.au@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> \
wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px \
#ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi David,<br> <div><div class="h5"><br>
On 29/11/2014, at 1:19 AM, David Edmundson wrote:<br>
&gt; Polkit-kde-agent is a small daemon that runs in the user&#39;s session bus, and \
prompts a user for authentication when a process on the same session requests polkit \
authorisation.<br> &gt;<br>
&gt; It is currently in extragear/base, however given it is an essential part of the \
workspace in order to use polkit actions I would like to move it to be part of the \
Plasma release.<br> &gt;<br>
&gt; This was discussed on plasma-devel with positive reception from active \
maintainers, I am asking on core-devel to confirm no-one has any objections to us \
making this move.<br> <br>
</div></div>If you can possibly avoid it, please do not put Polkit-kde-agent in a<br>
Plasma-only module (as has happened to Dr Konqi).   That is if p-k-a<br>
is something that might need to run on a platform where Plasma is<br>
not used, such as Windows or Apple OS X.<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>To clarify the proposition is just moving the \
repo metadata to be in the core kde/workspace folder rather than extragear so \
it&#39;s part of the Plasma release.</div><div>No code is actually moving between \
repos so it shouldn&#39;t make it any harder for an external platform to use. Though \
as Ben says, you probably wouln&#39;t want \
to.<br></div><div><br></div><div>David</div></div></div></div>



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