sys-auth/polkit requires polkit-gnome if the gtk use flag is specified, even if mate-polkit is present on the system. Either should be sufficient. Reproducible: Always
CCing mate maintainer to confirm they are drop-in replacements. Also, I guess Tom should be in freedesktop mail alias too as kde/gnome/xfce... ;)
Yes, it is a fork and thus should be able to be used as a drop-in replacement.
Is it a real fork or just some renaming like was done for another gtk agent that ssuominen (if I remember correctly) removed not so long ago ?
(In reply to Gilles Dartiguelongue from comment #3) > Is it a real fork or just some renaming like was done for another gtk agent > that ssuominen (if I remember correctly) removed not so long ago ? It'a a pointless rename like lxpolkit (or xfpolkit which was once written, but deleted, after upstream was made aware polkit-gnome is GTK+ toolkit, not gnome library dependant -only) It's freakily forked out for GNOME 2.x (that's now MATE) because also the libpolkit-gtk library we have in gnome-extra/polkit-gnome:obsolete SLOT, was also renamed to something like libpolkit-mate-gtk and then that library started to be used for eg. mate-system-tools As I explained to TomWij when he was adding this package, it would only be until he finds the reasonable time to swap the linking against the old polkit GTK+ library in the reverse dependencies, like mate-system-tools, against the unrenamed libraries from gnome-extra/polkit-gnome:obsolete As in... 1. Fix reverse deps to link against the library from polkit-gnome:obsolete instead of the renamed pointless mate library 2. Delete NotShowIn=MATE; from polkit-gnome's .desktop file to make the agent ran also when MATE is launched 3. Remove mate-polkit from tree accordingly Anyways, since the .desktop file of mate-polkit is OnlyShowIn=MATE;, this is not a viable GTK+ agent, and doesn't belong to || ( ) of polkit's ebuild This situation is temporary, and fixable by the MATE maintainers
Bradley, please follow what was written in the Whiteboard field: Use 'sys-auth/polkit -gtk' in /etc/portage/package.use ... As for an actual resolution, upstream will eventually do this at some point: 2014-03-01 15:21:25 TomWij I had one question for you wrt mate-polkit: 2014-03-01 15:21:59 TomWij What does this fork provide on top of polkit-gnome (or similar other polkit agents)? 2014-03-01 15:23:19 TomWij Someone pinged me about that, asking why I add another polkit agent clone; then we looked at it together and we saw there was a library, I suppose that reverse dependencies link to that library and need some extra functionality from it that other polkit agents don't provide? 2014-03-01 15:25:17 stefano-k well... it provides polkit for MATE apps, because they arent the GNOME ones now, different names 2014-03-01 15:26:09 TomWij This has its importance in determining if mate-polkit can be used in other DEs as well as that polkit-gnome from other DEs can be used in MATE; currently we've set that other polkits are unavailable in MATE and I've seen in the .desktop that mate-polkit only is set to show in MATE. 2014-03-01 15:26:24 TomWij But also in keeping an extra package out of the Portage tree is possible. 2014-03-01 15:26:26 TomWij if* 2014-03-01 15:27:12 stefano-k well... we are really interested in drop every package that can be replaced... so you're right... I should check if we could use gnome-polkit with eventual changes 2014-03-01 15:27:20 stefano-k the fact is the first MATE developer forked everything 2014-03-01 15:27:50 stefano-k but now GNOME devs are allowing us to implement changes to use their apps/libraries in MATE to drop useless forks As this is a temporary situation upstream, there is nothing for us to do now.
