Why does Zoneminder require polkit on Linux?

[ncpv]

I have Zoneminder 1.33 installed on a Linux box.

Among other dependencies there is a polkit package.

Why does Zoneminder need it?

Is there a particular aspect of Zoneminder's operation that requires it?

Can it work without polkit?

[iconnor]

Because we need to do certain things with escalated privileges.

What have you got against polkit?

[ncpv]

What have you got against polkit?

Dependencies. It pulls spidermonkey, rust and llvm which otherwise would not be installed on this particular system. And because that system runs a compiled Linux distribution, I would like to avoid compiling these dependencies.

May I ask what exactly would break in Zoneminder's operation without polkit? May be these functions are never needed in my use case.

[Magic919]

Maybe that's something for Gentoo to fix for you.

[Gronzelt]

Because these are systems that depend on each other,they work in a complementary way.In any case, you can find analogs.