On Sat 09 Dec 2017 at 07:52:56 +0000, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Fri, Dec 08, 2017 at 07:57:03PM +0000, Brian wrote: > > > That's a good point. > > > > Not really. systemd doesn't stop providing a single place to define a > > consistent policy because a set of users do not use it. > > That's not the point I thought was good: the point is, in Debian, > systemd is optional. As an Operating System, consistency is a good > thing, and so if we have a consistent policy for anything, it would be > nice if that was not dependent on optional software. On the other hand, > nobody has put together an alternative to achieve the same thing, and we > are all volunteers.
Consistencey can be achieved by not installing policykit. The OP appears to have chosen the wrong target. > > A bug report against the release notes with a patch is always worth a > > try. > > The relevant release notes would be the ones for the release that > introduced systemd which has been and gone. Nothing is irreversible. A proposed erratum, then. -- Brian.