remove polkit from core?

[Florian Weimer]

On 11/10/2012 05:26 PM, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> On 2012-11-09 18:27, Matthew Miller wrote:
>> The js package is 6.5MB.
>
> BTW I suppose that could be significantly reduced by linking /usr/bin/js
> with the dynamic libmozjs instead of the static one generated during the
> build. It seems to take something more than just the attached patch though.

Most interpreters deliberately do this because non-PIC code is 
significantly faster than PIC code, especially on architectures without 
IP-relative addressing.  These days, it may be possible to recover some 
of the lost performance by tweaking ELF symbol visibility or 
amalgamation builds (that is, stuffing everything in a single C file; 
-flto could perhaps provide an equivalent).

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Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security Team