On Sat, 2012-11-10 at 02:33 +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! So that more complex rules-parsing can be done instead of hardcoded rules. For example, when creating a new WiFi network, NetworkManager could pass along the security options, network details, even the user that requested creating it. Administrator-written rules can factor all those details into the decision whether to allow/deny, which the existing static rules simply cannot do. Whether or not JS should be a *hard* dependency of PolicyKit, I don't know. But the feature is valuable, so don't dismiss it out-of-hand. Dan -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
