FS#49322 - Add a polkit-agent provides in related packages

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by guillaume (guinux) - Friday, 13 May 2016, 17:04 GMT
Last edited by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Saturday, 14 May 2016, 05:38 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
As explain here https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Polkit#Authentication_agents
there are multiple providers for an polkit authentication agent.
I propose to add a provides line in their PKGBUILD, maybe "polkit-agent" it would ease the dependency resolution for an authentication agent.
This task depends upon

Closed by  Jan de Groot (JGC)
Saturday, 14 May 2016, 05:38 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't implement
Additional comments about closing:  Useless: gnome-shell will not fix missing polkit-gnome on xfce for example.
Comment by Antonio Rojas (arojas) - Friday, 13 May 2016, 17:53 GMT
What would this fix? The polkit package does provide a polkit auth agent, and all other agent packages depend on polkit, so there wouldn't be any difference at all between depending on 'polkit-agent' and depending on 'polkit'.
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Friday, 13 May 2016, 20:37 GMT
This doesn't fix anything, as the agent has to be started also.

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