On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 01:18:52PM +0200, Ladislav Slezak wrote:

> Currently yast2-core package requires also DBus and PolicyKit packages 
> (because of
> the DBus service and the DBus agent).
> 
> This makes updating or compiling the interpreter more complicated and the DBus
> service is always installed (even when not needed) which is bad from security 
> point
> of view.
> 
> So my proposal is to split the package into three parts:
> - yast2-core - the core interpreter + agents (no DBus or PolicyKit dependency)
> - yast2-dbus-client - the DBus agent (requires DBus),
>     currently needed by yast2-storage only
> - yast2-dbus-server - YaST DBus services (require DBus + PolicyKit),
>     needed by WebYast (so it should not be installed by default)
> 
> I have already prepared the new packages in tmp/lslezak SVN branch, RPMs are 
> in my
> OBS project (home:lslezak:Factory).
> 
> Please review the proposal. If there are no objections I'll submit the 
> packages to
> Factory soon...

Fine with me. Please add yast2-dbus-client to the required
packages of yast2-storage.

ciao Arvin

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Arvin Schnell, <[email protected]>
Senior Software Engineer, Research & Development
SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg)
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