On Saturday 09 of June 2018 15:40:57 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> This question might be a bit OT (and probably totally useless for the
> systemd-fraction), but ... what is the purpose of  need consolekit &
> policykit & elogind ? I observed consolekit creating hordes of
> children, resulting in ~ 5% cpu usage. I deleted consolekit & policykit
> & elogind, restarted the system and found everything still working
> perfectly. So, what are these good for? Is TDE depending on these in
> any way?
>
> Nik

Hi Nik,

consolekit and policykit may be needed for tde_dbus_hardwarecontrol, 
NetworkManager and UDisks / UDisks2.

Cheers
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Slávek