Bug 200059 – sys-apps/hal-0.5.10 - {policy,console}kit/acl support should not be mandatory

• Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2007-11-23 09:22:24 UTC]

Because it's clearly optional, configurable and because to some people the choice still matters.

Patch attached.

[Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2007-11-23 09:23:22 UTC]

Created attachment 136744 [details, diff]
hal-0.5.10.ebuild.diff

If you want to make it enabled by default in profiles or via EAPI-1 and use defaults, that's perfectly fine. Removing the choice is not.

[Comment 2 Andrey Melentyev 2007-11-23 10:21:25 UTC]

consolekit is also a dependency for xinit:

# equery d consolekit
[ Searching for packages depending on consolekit... ]
sys-apps/hal-0.5.10 (>=sys-auth/consolekit-0.2)
x11-apps/xinit-1.0.5-r1 (hal? sys-auth/consolekit)

[Comment 3 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2007-11-23 10:24:28 UTC]

(In reply to comment #2)
> consolekit is also a dependency for xinit:

Only w/ USE=hal, plus off-topic here.

[Comment 4 Doug Goldstein (RETIRED) 2007-11-23 14:25:58 UTC]

It's not optional. The ./configure script has polkit as optional as legacy. We're not supporting both configurations since upstream has made it clear it will be manditory. Additionally, next versions of GNOME will make polkit mandatory.

[Comment 5 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2007-11-23 14:39:12 UTC]

- PolicyKit        >= 0.5       (optional)
- ConsoleKit       >= 0.2.0     (optional, needed if use PolicyKit)

Well thanks, I'll maintain this in my overlay myself, it works just fine w/o this  needless cruft forced on people that have no need for it.