PackageKit Misconceptions

[Colin Walters]

On 8/22/07, Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> wrote:
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>
> So basically what you're saying is that we should just give up and go
> home.  Right?  Do we seriously just want to give everybody full root
> access and let whatever happens happens, never asking them to think a
> second about what they're clicking or doing?  Basically windows95/98
> mentality?


Right now you can install new software on Fedora 7 out of the box - without
entering a password - by browsing to: http://addons.mozilla.org

So, you do not need root access to screw yourself over.  Really, everything
not under /home (i.e. under "root" control) is basically unimportant
infrastructure goo.  How do I know this?  Because almost every time I've
tried to upgrade Fedora something has gone wrong, so I've just preserved my
/home, blown away my disk, reinstalled, and reinstated /home and been at
basically the same point I was before.  Just have to enable passwordless
sudo.

No one has really solved the problem of trojan software.  Dialogs are
definitely not a solution.  Now, we can have a dialog for it and I wouldn't
argue against it - but we shouldn't delude ourselves into thinking that
having people enter a password is going to stop them from getting their MP3s
to play.
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