polkit cpupower-gui.rules are not installed

[unode]

While packaging cpupower-gui for NixOS I had to manually copy the cpupower-gui.rules file from the source directory in order to allow wheel members to modify settings without sudo.
I noticed that this file is not installed. Is this intended behaviour?

[vagnum08]

Not exactly. It depends on the distro. Debian still uses PolicyKit, which relies on the .pkla files. Up till now the default was to package these over the rules file, and have rules be copied manually.

I was thinking about it recently, and considering adding a switch in meson to control the behaviour.
Probably I will go with .rules being the default and the switch will be used for Debian and derivatives.

[vagnum08]

Tested it on Arch and it works with the default options.
However, I added the install -d ... line as without it the permissions of the folder is 755 instead of 750.