From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C97359CAF for ; Fri, 8 Apr 2016 15:09:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D4A6B21C0C9; Fri, 8 Apr 2016 15:09:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mout.kundenserver.de (mout.kundenserver.de [212.227.17.10]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8DCC621C0A2 for ; Fri, 8 Apr 2016 15:09:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.6.147] ([91.125.237.217]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (mreue101) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0LZvrB-1bXGFK2kGb-00llI4 for ; Fri, 08 Apr 2016 17:09:39 +0200 Message-ID: <5707C9B2.5090201@iee.org> Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2016 16:09:38 +0100 From: "M. J. Everitt" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.6.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] usr merge References: <5707191B.7060909@gmail.com> <57071AF6.7060206@iee.org> <5707be2c.0af3ca0a.86e6c.ffffef69@mx.google.com> <5707C144.2090004@iee.org> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6 OpenPGP: id=93C22371 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:S5GLdc2QCw2bacXZKHhJi2Sp/riKkQlPfNMIUGwT2uSg1o1mzy1 4gn6d6dG2ZOifLpxWp1u9gkCZEkj3ZLzYEybs9b3PZlecv8665h+lvg9IMf+mg+iPn64hwB +xAuNG39jVo/ixik0EDSrC9WombmbxvygLY8jy3luPnJDhDCfDlUuDw8cq8thT5fe8pWjFv GG0IAzxL44qnuezt6O+JQ== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:uS1kfKMWYfo=:ZYWmPRQdapM4JYgMskIihH /5+JwI7UZg/343f9aDIz4gK1FR9SPcgRPazcMRTD1O49tjRJt9+zX1LJk/VRCQSLktSDWZ1M9 XjjIEXJ8aecYXIWjRFhnht7JgZUxkAXqhQQ1zoV/ls+535hXKoNr5+SmLztAUI+zoI8JyXSmC ZTd3hhRWzowSQ48JfP46pTwC3omISbsBzgviUMAWLyP3KSSKVTc1XLF7wWv5xXK/FmeMi5Mhu nPZ5WHkT5XF1rCr+lpwR4v0sMfILQslyl1915EmpzsWj4X30nfP3MOyg/UeXbP3uvcDJMnSsv j3LIdbILqitjS/oz6rHJfNpcoykP+TRgJIIv3jwvq0uwTIhkV2BxLRrFjdn2J6ycJiUfk2ghW WqlnthDFwWtvYQZ3VEXOfr87xNfuAEx2CukLKCwuIq4QxzA1NLxn9PWdy4a2CsjE1bym6Yazx n3FIdkzKNb+D41Rg9IeHDpVFTEAPdtUIqI2l7+RoPeapLxlawAgVMEtlaCeojKQcZqJfJPrmc /metLy6lgWgB7id+sRCeq0wQ07cymV44+B1PsN0LXpYSNnDLMZn/t8c++HkKbZn8AP9Plo8Gt /8qcIJ/3/U3YcSHpEgGjMRT62n6Nq2IHsIcJn0JuIUg+4kk5qoX1tK3wLu6YxW743UR6TB8LW b9Rkisj9M58UhtuAIzt/+tt3JlEZMliLQCpjolPWZp76wD6HEkqmqrZg8hLYfajtZ4Ndje9gL q7CtSrcImfFb7ynA X-Archives-Salt: 3ec0cd44-d126-49d9-9f73-d0828b8c0479 X-Archives-Hash: 2e41867958ad47952d8e3aa33f96d356 On 08/04/16 16:02, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 10:33 AM, M. J. Everitt wrote: >> I'll come back to the links a bit later, but is policykit and its >> predecessor/derivatives now a mandatory part of a linux system? >> > The only mandatory component in a linux system, by definition, is the > Linux kernel. > > A linux system could consist of nothing but a kernel with > init=/usr/local/bin/hello-world. > > Most traditional linux distros are going to run policykit though. Of > course you can have a mostly-traditional distro that doesn't, at least > until everything wants to use dbus or whatever ends up replacing it > once son-of-kdbus comes along and gets accepted. > Surely, Rich, you mean init=/bin/hello-world ... ;]