Shouldn't systemd have at least an optdep on polkit?

nierro · 2014-07-18 14:06:30

Hi!
Today I was cleaning my netbook to remove useless packages, and I noticed that i had no package that requires polkit. "Remove that" said my stupid mind. Well, i did that.
But it seems that systemd needs polkit to grant non priviliged user poweroff/reoboot/suspend...etc etc permissions ( in fact systemd ships a few files in /usr/share/polkit-1/).
So i tried to add my user to the "power" group, but nothing changed. Then i reverted back and installed polkit again. Now everything works again.
So my suggestion is: add polkit as optdep to systemd. I guess it should be right, isn't it?

Thanks for your attention!

Bye!

Last edited by nierro (2014-07-19 08:28:59)

Runiq · 2014-07-18 14:25:28

Filed a feature request.

nierro · 2014-07-18 14:27:14

I was waiting for some more feedbacks before doing that, but it seems you took care before me
Thank you!

karol · 2014-07-18 14:35:08

What about https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/32316 ?

Runiq · 2014-07-18 14:45:45

Argh, sorry. I did search for polkit in the bug tracker, but this didn't turn up for some reason… I've requested closing the request.

Last edited by Runiq (2014-07-18 14:46:00)

nierro · 2014-07-18 14:54:52

Oh i'm sorry too. Will *mark as solved* this thread.

Last edited by nierro (2014-07-18 14:55:23)

karol · 2014-07-18 15:04:11

Runiq wrote:

Argh, sorry. I did search for polkit in the bug tracker, but this didn't turn up for some reason…

The search includes only open task by default.
It's best to search in all statuses (it's an option in advanced settings).

karol · 2014-07-19 00:21:33

Seems the feature request is valid:

falconindy wrote:

The bug report you cite is nearing 2 years old and provides irrelevant information. systemd forks to call polkit these days rather than linking to it.

You may want to unmark the thread :-)

Scimmia · 2014-07-19 01:53:25

Don't uninstall packages in the base group unless you know what you're doing.

Nothing depends on the "linux" package, either, you want to try uninstalling that?

Edit, I take that back, polkit isn't in base. By bad.

Last edited by Scimmia (2014-07-19 01:58:02)

nierro · 2014-07-19 08:28:49

Oh, i'll unmark the thread then

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#1 2014-07-18 14:06:30

Shouldn't systemd have at least an optdep on polkit?

#2 2014-07-18 14:25:28

Re: Shouldn't systemd have at least an optdep on polkit?

#3 2014-07-18 14:27:14

Re: Shouldn't systemd have at least an optdep on polkit?

#4 2014-07-18 14:35:08

Re: Shouldn't systemd have at least an optdep on polkit?

#5 2014-07-18 14:45:45

Re: Shouldn't systemd have at least an optdep on polkit?

#6 2014-07-18 14:54:52

Re: Shouldn't systemd have at least an optdep on polkit?

#7 2014-07-18 15:04:11

Re: Shouldn't systemd have at least an optdep on polkit?

#8 2014-07-19 00:21:33

Re: Shouldn't systemd have at least an optdep on polkit?

#9 2014-07-19 01:53:25

Re: Shouldn't systemd have at least an optdep on polkit?

#10 2014-07-19 08:28:49

Re: Shouldn't systemd have at least an optdep on polkit?

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