RSLs are an unfortunate consequence of bad framework design, which requires you to load a lot of things you don't need. Hopefully, redesign of the framework may make the RSLs a less important issue... with the emphasis been on "hopefully". However, it would be much-much-much better, if Adobe considered player design in a way how, for example, Python or CL, or HaXe work - i.e. The user could allow storing libraries to their HD, centralized, in the way they can be used by Flash runtime. So that Flex would have no special gift of being able to save it's own code, while others couldn't... well, sounds sci-fi, innit? :P
Best. wvxvw