remove polkit from core?

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 02:33:53AM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Matthew Miller wrote:
> > Apparently the new version of polkit brings in javascript. The js package
> > is 6.5MB. I think anything that uses polkit will depend on it -- can we
> > remove it from core?
> 
> Of course, the real question is why the heck PolicyKit needs a Turing-
> complete rule language (which also forced everyone to port their existing 
> rules) when the previously-used simple INI-style pkla rule format did the 
> job just fine!

And Unix groups worked OK before that (and still do for the majority
of purposes).

Rich.

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