[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#526854: Bug#526854: hal: HAL should not require PolicyKit

[Fredrik Tolf]

On Mon, 2009-05-04 at 23:12 +0200, Fredrik Tolf wrote:
> What I do think is a bad idea is installing policykit by default, as a
> hard dependency of HAL.

Just in case I wasn't clear enough, my argument is this: Without
PolicyKit, I had to take explicit action in order to grant privileges to
users, while with PolicyKit, I have to take explicit action in order to
*not* grant privileges to users. Therefore, it should not be installed
by default, since the mere act of installing it suddenly gives all my
existing users new privileges, without me, the administrator, even being
warned of such a thing.

Fredrik Tolf