Re: GNOME 3 status update

[Matthias Clasen <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 2:06 PM, Vincent Untz<vuntz gnome org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Le lundi 22 juin 2009, à 13:30 -0400, David Zeuthen a écrit :
>> FWIW, Matthias done a great job both porting apps as well as creating /
>> maintaining this page
>>
>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/PolicyKitOne
>>
>> which is useful for both distributors and the GNOME project itself.
>>
>> I guess all this means that PolicyKit doesn't even need to be an
>> external dependency anymore; e.g. basically no apps need to be aware it
>> even exists.
>
> So do we need to migrate all of GNOME at once (ie, commit all the
> patches at once)? Or is it possible to have both old and new PK at the
> same time on the system?

It is possible. In fact, that is what we have in rawhide currently.
But we really want to have the migration completed before the release,
because it just completely breaks the experience if you have two
separate policies, two different policy editors, etc etc...