Hi. On Sun, Jan 30, 2022 at 02:39:14PM +0100, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Du, 30 ian 22, 15:54:17, Reco wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 01:36:06AM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: > > > On 29/01/22 04:17, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > > > > > Servers shouldn't have pkexec installed in the first place, anyway. > > > > > > > > > > libvirt-daemon-system depends on policykit-1. > > > > > > Should that not be on my (kvm) server either? > > > > Many years ago exactly this was disputed in #768376. > > Long story short - the only reason libvirt-daemon-system depends on > > policykit-1 is because GNOME users could be confused if it does not. > > As far as I can tell the Maintainer's stance (in 2014) was: > > Having polkit installed and doing nothing (for people switching to > socke based permission checks) is IMHO a better service to our users > than having all the bugs for people installing without recommends (and > there are many of those) > > > How does "people installing without recommends" translate to "GNOME > users" is beyond me,
Easy. Look closely at two graphical frontends to libvirt they provide in main archive. Now ask yourself - would I need these on a server? Who would need to use these? > considering that GNOME users would have policykit-1 > installed anyway (as a dependency of GNOME) and they are much less > likely to disable installation of Recommends in the first place. Back in '14 that was not universal axiom. Things have changed since then somewhat though. > As written in message #80 circumstances have changed, maybe the > Maintainer will reconsider. Possibly, although unlikely. I mean, it was a wishlist priority bug, after all. My point in all this - PolicyKit was redundant on a typical server back then, and by large it still is. Even if your server has libvirt, although in this case some assembly is required. Reco