Proposed external dependency: PolicyKit/PolicyKit-gnome

[Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org>]

Homepage: http://hal.freedesktop.org/docs/PolicyKit/
          http://hal.freedesktop.org/docs/PolicyKit-gnome/
svn/git/bzr/...: http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=PolicyKit.git;a=summary
                 http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=users/david/PolicyKit-gnome.git;a=summary
Tarballs: http://hal.freedesktop.org/releases/
Proposal on d-d-l: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2007-October/msg00237.html

Short description:
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In a nutshell, PolicyKit aims to provide an API for querying and
managing "authorizations" and answer the question "Is $PROGRAM allowed
to do $ACTION on $OBJECT".
Basically, PolicyKit-gnome provides an Authentication Agent that can
prompt the user for his credentials, a set of classes to make it very
easy to use PolicyKit from GTK+ applications, an the UI for managing
authorizations.

Summary so far:
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 + PolicyKit-gnome might be proposed for inclusion in the desktop for
   2.24
 + already used in a few official GNOME modules, and it seems it will be
   used even wider

Vincent

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