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On 08/04/16 16:02, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> The only mandatory component in a linux system, by definition, is the |
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> Linux kernel. |
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> A linux system could consist of nothing but a kernel with |
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> init=/usr/local/bin/hello-world. |
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> Most traditional linux distros are going to run policykit though. Of |
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> course you can have a mostly-traditional distro that doesn't, at least |
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> until everything wants to use dbus or whatever ends up replacing it |
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> once son-of-kdbus comes along and gets accepted. |
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Being serious though, and playing Devil's Advocate of course, assuming |
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you have no use for a desktop manager, etc, hence no need for dbus or |
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it's 'friends' and policykit or it's pals, and you're not a "systemd |
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fan" etc .. how are we granting the correct permissions for binaries .. |
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just relying now on the owner and execute bits being set perfectly for |
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each binary, assuming everything is arbitrarily moved to /xbin ... |
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