polkit

Description:Policy framework for controlling privileges for system-wide services
License: GPL-2
Homepage:http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/polkit
Location:Portage
Last Change: 20 May 2012; Samuli Suominen
polkit-0.105.ebuild:
Improve systemd handling wrt #416317 by Christoph Brill
ChangeLog
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  • M - hardmask
alpha amd64 arm hppa ia64 m68k mips ppc ppc64 s390 sh sparc x86
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0.104-r1 + + + + + - ~ + + - + + +

USE flags

  • debug - Enable extra debug codepaths, like asserts and extra output. If you want to get meaningful backtraces see http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/backtraces.xml
  • doc - Adds extra documentation (API, Javadoc, etc). It is recommended to enable per package instead of globally
  • examples - Install examples, usually source code
  • expat - Enable the use of dev-libs/expat for XML parsing
  • gtk - Adds support for x11-libs/gtk+ (The GIMP Toolkit)
  • introspection - Use dev-libs/gobject-introspection for introspection
  • kde - Adds support for KDE (K Desktop Environment)
  • nls - Adds Native Language Support (using gettext - GNU locale utilities)
  • pam - Adds support for PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) - DANGEROUS to arbitrarily flip
  • systemd - Use sys-apps/systemd instead of sys-auth/consolekit for session tracking

Security Advisory

Date Severity Title
about 1 month high PolicyKit: Multiple vulnerabilities

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