Re: su/sudo wrapper

[Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org>]

Le mercredi 23 mai 2007, à 21:22 +0200, Benoît Dejean a écrit :
> Le mercredi 23 mai 2007 à 08:59 +0200, Vincent Untz a écrit :
> > Le mardi 22 mai 2007, à 10:58 +0200, Benoît Dejean a écrit :
> > > Thanks for your answer, but this doesn't solve my problem for 2.20. I'm
> > > looking for something stable and already widely used so it could be
> > > proposed as External Dependency and work with it.
> > 
> > In the past, there have always been objections on adding a dependency on
> > gksu/libgnomesu/something-else because the design was not good enough.
> > As far as I know, PolicyKit is the only solution that might have a
> > chance of getting blessed.
> 
> Obviously the people who objected were not the people who are using
> these libraries (?). gksu/etc may not be perfect but they do work and we
> need them.

Well, we know about the need. The point is we don't want to bless
something that doesn't do things right, because if we do so, more
projects will use it and it will be harder to replace it with the good
solution.

Vincent

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