Replacing polkit JS backend

[Jasper St. Pierre]

The last time this came up (when I tried to replace mozjs with Duktape), it
was pointed out that libvirt uses JS rules [0], and there's some evidence
that administrators are doing it as well. [1]

[0] https://libvirt.org/aclpolkit.html
[1] https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/1159

On Sat, Oct 21, 2017 at 10:28 AM, Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org> wrote:

> On Sat, Oct 21, 2017 at 03:40:40AM +0100, Ikey Doherty wrote:
> > I've opted to make it an **alternative** backend to ease migration,
> > thus:
> >
> >  --with-backend=js|keyfile
>
> Nice. I'm personally super in favor of it. Not speaking for Red Hat
> officially, by any means. From a pure Fedora point of view...
> I don't think we have many users taking advantage of the javascript
> format, but if there are, I would prefer to not break them.
>
>
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