Comment # 5 on bug 1048177 from Johannes Meixner

Martin Wilck,

I am afraid I do not know why hplip is built with --disable-policykit.

Usually I provide a comment in hplip.spec when I specify non-default
configure options but there is nothing about --disable-policykit.

Only a blind guess because in hplip.changes I found
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Tue May  5 14:54:42 CEST 2009 - jsmeix@suse.de
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- Updated to version 3.9.4:
  Added PolicyKit support. Command line tools like hp-setup,
  hp-plugin, etc. are now run as regular user.
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I guess --disable-policykit might have beed added at that time
or some time later but I cannot remember the reason why.