remove polkit from core?

["Jóhann B. Guðmundsson"]

On 11/14/2012 07:33 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 09:44:55AM -0500, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 9:26 AM, Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net> wrote:
>>> Great - let's take something that people are using, remove that
>>> functionality, and not announce it!
>>>
>>> This is not cool; it represents one of my biggest frustrations with a
>>> bunch of the "new and improved" ways of doing things.  You track down
>>> how to do something, it works for a few releases, and then it doesn't
>>> anymore with no notice.
>> I don't mind this much in isolation—  and to some extent its
>> unavoidable if there is to be progress.
>>
>> I also have the experience and impression that Fedora often dismisses
>> use cases in the 'long tail' as things that "power users" can get by
>> twiddling some opaque config file or registry entry or hacking some
>> bit of code— this happens more often the closer you get to the
>> desktop, but believe its a culture which permeates the project more
>> generally than that.  In isolation this too would be occasionally
>> frustrating but finite in baddness.
>>
>> The combination of the two— that anything non-stock is subject to
>> constant and often undocumented breakage _and_ that many non
>> nearly-universal use cases are too non-mainstream to consider
>> supportable stock features really diminishes the value I receive from
>> using a distribution at all.
> I was trying yesterday to formulate a question for the people running
> for FESCo along these lines; also what they thought about:
>
> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4772133
>
> However I wasn't able to formulate a snappy and non-carping question
> in time for the deadline.
>
> Still, I do believe it's something that FESCo (those elected and those
> standing for election) ought to address.

Why are other OS and upstream decision/discussion int their regard fesco 
problem?

Should not their focus be first and foremost on our own distribution and 
our own OS?

JBG