Re: policykit and systemd
On 2014-05-10 11:16 +0200, Slavko wrote:
> Hi,
>
> there was a lot of discussions about systemd. I don't want to start
> another one, but latest pilicykit update in testing gets policykit
> depends on systemd (via libpam-systemd).
What it really needs is a working logind, therefore the dependency.
> I don't know, is it really needed? I don't want to switch to systemd
> yet. There was a lot of opinions (include me), that systemd is change on
> defaults only, but now it seems that these opinions was wrong and more
> and more things get depends on it and they will not work (or minimally
> not install) without systemd. But policykit is useful and sometime it
> provides way to authenticate for some jobs for me. Or i am wrong?
>
> Please, is the (in)direct dependency of the policykit on the systemd bug
> or it is really needed?
The dependency is needed, but you can still install systemd-shim rather
than systemd-sysv and continue to boot with sysvinit.
Cheers,
Sven
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