913616 – sys-auth/polkit: USE=gtk pulls in obsolete polkit-gnome

Bug 913616 - sys-auth/polkit: USE=gtk pulls in obsolete polkit-gnome

Summary: sys-auth/polkit: USE=gtk pulls in obsolete polkit-gnome

Status:	UNCONFIRMED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	Freedesktop bugs

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Reported:	2023-09-04 12:40 UTC by Johannes Penßel
Modified:	2023-09-10 20:19 UTC (History)
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Description Johannes Penßel 2023-09-04 12:40:31 UTC

sys-auth/polkit USE=gtk has no real effect except pulling in gnome-extra/polkit-gnome. This is a project upstream has abandoned roughly 6 years ago, with the latest non-translation changes committed in late 2011. Due to USE=gtk being the default for gnome profiles, polkit-gnome ist still needlessly present on virtually all gentoo installations running GNOME. AFAICT, the only scenario where polkit-gnome still may have a purpose is in providing policykit support for non-GNOME or non-KDE environments, although better maintained alternatives such as lxqt-base/lxqt-policykit exist. For everyone else, polkit-gnome is just additional attack surface, which I find especially concerning given that it deals with, well, polkit. Please consider dropping USE=gtk for sys-auth/polkit, so that the superfluous, obsolete and potentially dangerous polkit-gnome affects fewer systems. 
Thanks!

Comment 1 Toralf Förster gentoo-dev

2023-09-10 15:41:32 UTC

dup of bug 885453 ?

Comment 2 Mike Gilbert gentoo-dev

2023-09-10 20:19:18 UTC

(In reply to Toralf Förster from comment #1)
> dup of bug 885453 ?

Doesn't look like it to me.