^ Pretty self-explanatory
I'm running a *kit-less Gentoo system. I needed udisks as a dependency, but
I wasn't willing to install PolicyKit or ConsoleKit, because I don't believe in
this systemd-like bullshit of all-in-one programs overstepping their
originally intended bounds. I hope this can be useful for other folk as a way
to no longer rely on PolicyKit.
You may use this in conjunction with packages such as cshorler's hal-flash in order to play DRM content with Adobe's Flash (yuck) on Linux, requiring minimal dependencies.
This fork is for udisks-2.1.8 (the most current 2.x stable udisks release
in Gentoo's Portage tree [as of writing]). The hack is quite ugly and simply tricks
udisks into thinking it's properly authenticated if compiled without
PolicyKit (using a bunch of #ifdef's). Expect limited, broken, and possibly
dangerous functionality.
The only files I changed are the following:
configure.ac
src/udisksdaemon.{c,h}
src/udisksdaemontypes.h
src/udisksdaemonutil.c
Read udisks's INSTALL for instructions on how to configure, compile, and
install udisks. PolicyKit is disabled by default, but you may use the
--enable-policykit flag to build the package with PolicyKit. If you are using
a Gentoo system with Portage, you may use the modified ebuild located in
usr/local/portage/sys-fs/udisks/udisks-2.1.8.ebuild. The policykit USE flag
will automatically handle toggling the appropriate compilation flag.
If this breaks your system, gets you fired from your job, or sets your computer on fire, it's not my fault.