-----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-----