How do I disable polkitd?

[lee]

Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net> writes:

> Am 21.11.2012 15:58, schrieb lee:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> it seems systemctl doesn't know about polkitd though pstree shows it as
>> started by systemd.  There don't seem to be files for starting polkitd
>> in /etc.  It cannot be removed because almost 600 packages depend on it
>> :(
>> 
>> So how do I disable it?
>
> easy answer: you can't it is fired up by dbus

Hmm, then I'd have to kill the daemon and rename or delete it.

> you can try "systemctl mask"

Systemctl doesn't seem to know about it, and there doesn't seem to be a
unit file for it.

> or LIVE with how the distribution is supposed to work - on
> installations without a GUI it does not get started at all

And be stuck with gnome and a lot of other stuff I don't need and
without lots of stuff I do need?  I'd be better off with windoze then.


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