Re: [gentoo-dev] usr merge

[M. J. Everitt]

On 08/04/16 16:02, Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 10:33 AM, M. J. Everitt <m.j.ever...@iee.org> 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 ... ;]