To me the issue is independent of the source language used. A popular object of criticism is polkit. For fun I took a look at the polkit man page on this Sid machine and while I have a general idea of what it does, it's overkill for my single user machine. While it's likely that it solves some enterprise problem, it never solved any problem I had and until the dependency chain in Xfce was updated late last summer, caused me a number of problems. I fail to see why this needs to be a necessary component installed by default.
For my purposes the classic Unix permissions system is good enough. I would be quite satisfied if these components were completely optional. This is what I regard as the needless complexity of modern Linux. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Ham radio, Linux, bikes, and more: http://www.n0nb.us _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
