How do I disable polkitd?

["Germán A. Racca"]

On 11/22/2012 05:30 PM, lee wrote:
> 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.
>

So what do you expect? That Gnome/Fedora team develop a 
desktop/distribution only to fit your needs?

-- 
Germán A. Racca
Fedora Package Maintainer
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Skytux