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. -- Rich
