[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#747397: policykit-1 forces using systemd and may break systems with sysvinit after update

[Laurent Bigonville]

Le Thu, 08 May 2014 20:30:02 +0400,
Boris Pek <tehnick-8 at yandex.ru> a écrit :

> Hi,
> 
> > As explained on #747105 policykit-1 only depends against
> > libpam-systemd which in turns depends against "systemd-sysv |
> > systemd-shim".
> 
> But systemd package will be installed in any case. Not a big problem
> though...

logind daemon is in the systemd package

> 
> > If you don't want to use systemd as PID1 you can install
> > systemd-shim.
> 
> Ok. But if I understand correctly policykit will be limited in
> functionality in this case. Which its functions will be lost?

As long as you have a logind session registred, everything should work
the same.

> 
> > Also please in the future report bugs about actual breakage not
> > hypothetical ones, thanks.
> 
> Sorry, but I am a very cautious during updating system, especially
> when some changes may do my system unbootable. Maybe I will find time
> to check this update in VirtualBox later.

Thanks!

> 
> Best regards,
> Boris