remove polkit from core?

[Matthias Clasen]

----- Original Message -----
> Miloslav Trmač wrote:
> > I have recently had to search all existing polkit policies.  This
> > is
> > no longer possible to automate because various packages ship the
> > JavaScript policy, so I had to review those by hand.  It seems that
> > (perhaps with the exception of polkit itself) any use of JavaScript
> > could be converted into the old format, which remains supported.
> 
> Actually, we were told multiple times that .pkla is no longer
> supported and
> no longer works and that we all have to use JavaScript .rules in
> F18+.

Yes, this was a misunderstanding. What is still supported is the .policy files containing the default policy. And that is very good, since such policy files are installed by pretty much every package that uses polkit, while .pkla files were only used by very few packages.