Re: Replacing polkit by polkit-duktape on core-updates-frozen ?

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauermann@kolabnow.com> skribis:

> Em quinta-feira, 11 de novembro de 2021, às 15:23:37 -03, Maxim Cournoyer 
> escreveu:
>> Hello Guix!
>> 
>> I've finally merged the core-updates-frozen-batched-changes to
>> core-updates-frozen. 
>
> Hooray!
>
>> One thing we could do in the meantime is to replace our polkit package
>> with polkit-duktape, which uses an (unmerged) patch to build polkit
>> against duktape rather than mozjs [1].  The patch seems to have garnered
>> some attention recently.  This would enable to build GTK and parts of
>> GNOME without rust, I believe.
>
> I’d suggest replacing polkit with polkit-duktape only for non-x86_64 
> architectures. What do you think?¨

Yes, that seems like the most reasonable option.

Thanks, Maxim!

Ludo’.