Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/4] net-bridge: rootless bridge support for qemu

[Jamie Lokier]

Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Absolutely.  I wanted to not have a hard dependency on PolicyKit to 
> start out with but that's always been the plan.  I'd like to eventually 
> add an optional PolicyKit dependency and when that's available not even 
> bother with the qemu acl file.  The nice thing about PolicyKit is the 
> desktop integration.  It's a much better user experience to allow a user 
> to be prompted to allow qemu to access a bridge vs. having to error out 
> to the user and tell them to muck with a config file.

Please do keep it optional.

PolicyKit is actively unhelpful when you're configuring a remote
server which doesn't have a desktop, or you don't have access to it's
desktop.

It's also unhelpful when you're trying to script something.  The last
thing you want a test harness script to do is prompt the user.

I much prefer command line errors in both those cases :-)

-- Jamie