Re: Removing sysutils/polkit dependency from sysutils/libudisks?

2021-01-18 Thread Steve Wills
Hi, On 1/17/21 3:17 AM, Kurt Jaeger wrote: Hi! Can you tell us the reason behind this opinion ? Is it generally buggy, does polkit violate some general design policy for apps etc ? * There's one part of polkit, pkexec, which is suid and linked to some libs that really aren't designed to be us

Re: Removing sysutils/polkit dependency from sysutils/libudisks?

2021-01-17 Thread Kurt Jaeger
Hi! > Personally, I'm still very much of the opinion that the less polkit is > used the better. Can you tell us the reason behind this opinion ? Is it generally buggy, does polkit violate some general design policy for apps etc ? -- p...@opsec.eu+49 171 3101372No

Re: Removing sysutils/polkit dependency from sysutils/libudisks?

2021-01-16 Thread Steve Wills
Hi, On 1/15/21 5:45 AM, Pau Amma wrote: Several months ago, someone (swills@ IIRC) asked me to look into removing the sysutils/polkit dependency from sysutils/libudisks which I maintain. I just had a chance to look at that request and it would require at least removing the udisksctl utility fr

Removing sysutils/polkit dependency from sysutils/libudisks?

2021-01-15 Thread Pau Amma
Several months ago, someone (swills@ IIRC) asked me to look into removing the sysutils/polkit dependency from sysutils/libudisks which I maintain. I just had a chance to look at that request and it would require at least removing the udisksctl utility from the default options and possibly remov