On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 8:51 PM, Dario Freddi <[email protected]> wrote: > I am not a big fan of this patch because (especially given what I've written > above) I don't see a use case. You personally don't use it doesn't means that others don't need it or there is no use case. It's widely used in SuSE and it's required by some Debian/Ubuntu packages, too. It's especially useful when you have a simple program and the part dealing with dbus + policykit support is even bigger than the program itself. That's the use case. As I said previously, it's a matter of ``choice''. Developers can use policykit if they want, but don't prevent others from using sudo simply because you don't use it. Adding this key doesn't prevent developers from using policykit. It only adds usefulness for those who need it.
The "No, you don't need that" strategy is not very good for a healthy, open, and free community. Issues are raised again and agina simply because people need it. The best way to deal with this kind issue, IMHO, is not "No, you are wrong. You don't need that.". Maybe it's not needed for Gnome and KDE, but our users in other desktop environments need it. Otherwise we shouldn't get this kind of feature requests and user feedback. _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
