Upcoming Fedora Test Days ... DeviceKit and XFCE

Matthias Clasen mclasen at redhat.com
Tue Mar 17 17:09:26 UTC 2009


On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 10:10 -0600, Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 08:10:20PM -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> > On Mon, 2009-03-16 at 15:25 -0600, Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > The general issue is that while on one hand things are getting
> > > tightened up with SELinux policies, from time to time beyond a point
> > > of usability, at the same moment big holes are opened due to a
> > > byzantine maze of dependencies between PolicyKit and DeviceKit and
> > > Nautilus and generally desktop things. 
> > 
> > Care to explain where you see a maze of dependencies ?
> 
> Let's make that very specific.  When I brought up
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=489397,
> which has clear security consequences, the first reaction from a
> person which _should_ be pretty familiar with the subject was
> (this is a literal quote): "Your beef is with Nautilus" and to close
> the bug.  I was somewhat persistent and presumably a fix is now in
> the works but do you think that this came from a deep understanding?

Sorry, I don't see any specifics about a maze of dependencies in your
response. 




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