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 From: peter@pblackman.plus.com 
  
 On 26/09/2025 02:46, Brandon Werner wrote: 
 > CCing the polkit folks for their input. This bug is in regards to two 
 polkit agents being installed in testing/unstable now that xfce-polkit has 
 migrated to testing. They cause an error message to appear when both try to 
 start after logging into the 
 desktop. 
 > I think that xfce-polkit is pulled in due to the virtual package polkit-1- 
 auth-agent. I found two packages that depend on this virtual package and 
 one that recommends it with a fresh xfce install but there may be more. nm- 
 connection-editor and network- 
 manager-applet depend on this virtual package,. Thunar recommends it. Xfce4 
 recommends mate-polkit directly. 
 > Is it possible that the virtual polkit-1-auth-agent dependency of the 
 network-manager packages is resolved first and xfce-polkit happens to be 
 picked, and then mate-polkit is also installed to satisfy the recommends 
 for xfce4? This is all guessing; I 
 don't know how dependency resolution works in apt in these sorts of 
 situations. 
 > Both these packages seem to do about the same thing, so I think choosing 
 one and making sure only one is installed would be fine. This seems best 
 decided by the xfce maintainers. 
  
 Hi, 
  
 I'm wondering if the best solution would be for xfce4 to recommend 
 the virtual package polkit-1-auth-agent instead of specifically mate-polkit? 
 That would fix this bug. 
  
 Also, mate-polkit, as well as depending on accountsservice, 
 also depends on polkitd which pulls in systemd. 
 That would not go well for users of XFCE on Devuan etc. 
  
 Regards, 
 Peter 
  
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