From e4af5cdb20fed9211e4b1a7c99b8ca5998259bcf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ahmed Abdelhalim <pm@a14m.dev>
Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2025 23:37:36 +0200
Subject: Fix gnome on archlinux installing packages without administrator acc

The gnome on archlinux was lacking polkit and it's configuration and was
failing to install any application from the gnome store
---
 roles/gnome/tasks/install-archlinux.yml | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 roles/gnome/vars/archlinux.yml          |  2 ++
 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+)

diff --git a/roles/gnome/tasks/install-archlinux.yml b/roles/gnome/tasks/install-archlinux.yml
index b70c2540..bd58c09d 100644
--- a/roles/gnome/tasks/install-archlinux.yml
+++ b/roles/gnome/tasks/install-archlinux.yml
@@ -10,3 +10,19 @@
   ansible.builtin.systemd:
     name: "gdm"
     enabled: true
+
+- name: "Enable polkit service"
+  become: true
+  ansible.builtin.systemd:
+    name: "polkit"
+    enabled: true
+
+- name: "Configure polkit admin rule for sudo group"
+  become: true
+  ansible.builtin.copy:
+    dest: "/etc/polkit-1/rules.d/50-default.rules"
+    mode: "0644"
+    content: |
+      polkit.addAdminRule(function(action, subject) {
+          return ["unix-group:sudo"];
+      });
diff --git a/roles/gnome/vars/archlinux.yml b/roles/gnome/vars/archlinux.yml
index d889d18a..0dd84de7 100644
--- a/roles/gnome/vars/archlinux.yml
+++ b/roles/gnome/vars/archlinux.yml
@@ -2,3 +2,5 @@
 gnome_packages:
   - "gnome"
   - "gdm"
+  - "polkit"
+  - "polkit-gnome"
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