I have decided that sudo is superior to polkit in every way for both developers and user except for if developers want to be lazy and outsource policy creation to more general and so less specific and so obviously likely less secure ones. I do not wish to debate that and all debates I have seen have simply shown a lack of understanding of what sudo can do.
I know that simply disabling polkit allows me to keep KDE and many packages without any problems except that my logs will get filled with rubbish. On a Ubuntu box I have uninstalled polkit and so had to remove the whole of KDE, which is rediculous in itself but whilst some think that this is a Ubuntu issue I currently think that it is a KDE/polkit design issue as Ubuntu cannot be expected to have two KDE builds. PAM support is in many packages without dependency issues for example. A couple of packages (sofar) like nvidia-settings and steam-launcher have to be installed outside the repos if you do not have polkit installed even though they are 99% functional without polkit. I believe there is no debate about hard dependencies here being a Ubuntu issue? p.s. Has Ubuntu considered shipping default sudoers policies possibly taking advantage of groups, NOPASSWD: etc. and Defaults:ubusuperguiinteractiveuser timestamp_timeout=0 -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
