You’re right that they’re they same. According to the Polkit Wikipedia article,
Since version 0.105, released in 2015 the name of the project was changed from PolicyKit to polkit.
Also, the tag wiki excerpt for policykit is a copy of the first line of the above Wikipedia article,
Polkit (formerly PolicyKit) is a component for controlling system-wide privileges in Unix-like operating systems.
I don’t have enough (any) reputation in these tags to suggest a synonym but I’d recommend that a moderator or high rep user change policykit to be a synonym for the newer name, polkit.
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Since there's only 6 questions in polkit, perhaps we could edit those posts to use policykit, then apply the synonyms? – Jeff Schaller♦ Nov 7 '17 at 20:23
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@JeffSchaller I've edited those 6 questions to replace the polkit tag with policykit. Interestingly, none of them had an answer – aside from one self-answer. – Anthony G - justice for Monica Nov 7 '17 at 22:59
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@AnthonyGeoghegan hang on, shouldn't it be the other way around? If the current name is
polkit
, then that's the one we should use. – terdon♦ Nov 10 '17 at 17:51 -
@terdon Other than reading unix.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/suggest-tag-synonyms, I'm not particularly au fait with the process of creating tag synonyms and Jeff’s suggestion made sense to me. Thanks for resolving this issue so that all questions are properly tagged. – Anthony G - justice for Monica Nov 10 '17 at 21:42
policykit
tag is now a synonym of thepolkit
tag so if anyone tries to usepolicykit
, their question will be tagged withpolkit
. – terdon♦ Nov 10 '17 at 17:57