On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 9:43 PM, Kevin Chadwick <ma1l1i...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > You could try to argue that many eyes will look at a central piece of > code but in fact less implementations will likely mean less eyes and > just assumption that a guy who got JS through as a config language has > everything covered.
Still can't wrap my mind around that. A call into a multi-MB generic language library (usually with JIT as well) on every PolKit action — right, a good idea. I kind of liked PolKit before that change. This is a major problem, there are other questionable choices that raise the question whether developers are familiar with how things are done on Unix: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58787 > Sudo even supports regex! Only glob patterns, and it's not too good at that. http://www.sudo.ws/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=500 -- Maxim Kammerer Liberté Linux: http://dee.su/liberte
