^ 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.