Polkit on Duktape

[Michael Biebl]

2015-08-18 20:11 GMT+02:00 Shawn Walker-Salas <shawn.walker at oracle.com>:
> polkit's dependency on mozjs is a royal pain, especially for distributions
> that build on more "niche" platforms where mozjs is only recently gaining
> support for some hardware and operating systems.

Let me add here, that Debian and Ubuntu never made the switch to a
JS-based polkit, i.e. we still use v0.105 in all our current stable
releases and development branches.

The idea of using a turing complete language which makes it impossible
to audit the polkit configuration never struck us as a good idea.
Also seeing the pain which is involved getting polkit updated to newer
mozjs releases, and the fact that mozjs, afaik, is not officially
blessed/security supported by mozilla, didn't really to convince us to
do the switch either.

Michael


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