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 1089E59CAF for ; Fri, 8 Apr 2016 14:50:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 04A0D21C0C8; Fri, 8 Apr 2016 14:50:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (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 DE8B521C0A5 for ; Fri, 8 Apr 2016 14:50:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.130] (CPE002401f30b73-CM78cd8ec1b205.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com [99.224.138.49]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: axs) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 71BE8340A3B for ; Fri, 8 Apr 2016 14:50:27 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] pokit (was: usr merge) To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <5707191B.7060909@gmail.com> <57071AF6.7060206@iee.org> <5707be2c.0af3ca0a.86e6c.ffffef69@mx.google.com> <5707C144.2090004@iee.org> From: Ian Stakenvicius Message-ID: Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2016 10:50:24 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.0 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 In-Reply-To: <5707C144.2090004@iee.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 5f390129-49b0-4731-b590-26ed3c5ca752 X-Archives-Hash: 7f8815bdf8fcdbd84aa01b7676188b0b -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 08/04/16 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? > > Possibly crossing posts here, so apologies in advance .. ! :] > polkit is only required/mandatory AFAIK in relation to dbus, which, at least for now and at least for non-systemd systems, is also technically optional. And even within a dbus-managed environment I'm not sure if it's absolutely mandatory, tbh. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iF4EAREIAAYFAlcHxTAACgkQAJxUfCtlWe1gfAEAi6++jBTDblAA8K3GOZj05lZI 1iN9xSjIZ1uSpqIUKtAA/1liMQleuZTWyCGbw0IIFNt+ELeIUu0RUoBKSnH3DIN5 =YEAz -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----