Re: Programs that need root privileges

[Gustavo Noronha Silva <gns gnome org>]

On Sat, 2009-12-19 at 17:30 +0100, Domen Vrankar wrote:
> I was wondering if there were any plans regarding the behaviour of
> programs that need root privileges ( RootSudo or how root privileges
> window is called in Ubuntu) like for e.g. synaptic package manager?

Synaptic should be rewritten to use PolicyKit, and only use root powers
when doing stuff that really needs it - which makes hacks like gksu
unnecessary =).

See you,

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Gustavo Noronha Silva <gns gnome org>
GNOME Project