Daniel Dickinson <csh...@bmts.com> writes: > It'd be nice if packages which depend on gksu, gksudo, ksudo, etc could > use a unified alternative (e.g. x-su for su-like and x-sudo for > sudo-like graphical frontents to su and sudo) so that one was not > required to install e.g. parts of gnome just because a package depends > on gksu (there are a few packages for which gksu pulls in more of gnome > than if one leaves out gksu and uses ktsuss or ksudo (for instance)).
The "correct" thing to do at this point (I say "correct" rather than correct because, while I believe there is a general agreement it's the best thing to do, I know some people strongly disagree) is to have the package depend on menu and use su-to-root. su-to-root will dynamically call whatever is available, with some sane fallbacks. I think that if su-to-root were in debianutils, everyone would agree that this is the right way to do it. Some people don't like having to install menu in order to get this utility. For more information, see http://bugs.debian.org/492493 -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org