SELinux removed from desktop cd spin?

Karsten 'quaid' Wade kwade at redhat.com
Fri Jan 18 00:35:17 UTC 2008


On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 11:09 +0100, Valent Turkovic wrote:
> Simo Sorce wrote:
> > On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 08:26 +0100, Valent Turkovic wrote:
> >> Andrew Farris wrote:
> >>> Valent Turkovic wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> And I bet that more will choose ubuntu as a "friendlier" desktop if
> >>>> fedora forces people to use SELinux.
> >>> Except noone is talking about forcing anyone to use selinux, just about 
> >>> not 'suggesting' that they don't use it... which is exactly what turning 
> >>> it off at install would be doing.
> >>>
> >> Sorry but you are forcing it if is enabled by default on install.
> >> How much users (not counting devels, admins and testers) of fedora know 
> >> about SELinux and what it is? And what do people do when they install 
> >> something - they probably leave all settings on default in hope that 
> >> they don't "break" something with their wrong choices.
> > 
> > I would like to propose that the CD Desktop spin also always run as
> > root.
> > Users do not know how to correctly use file  permissions (or even know
> > what they are) and they often are annoyed that they cannot simply remove
> > useless directories like /usr that serve no apparent purpose but occupy
> > a lot of space.
> > 
> > Ah, also, can we run Fedora on a FAT file system by default, it's a much
> > easier file system to deal with and works on Cameras too and it is not
> > case sensitive, which is really helpful, case sensitivity is sooo
> > annoying ...
> > 
> > And also those annoying pop-ups asking for the root of a password when
> > you want to change some configuration? What in the earth is the root of
> > a password? I'd say login as root with no password is the best for
> > usability,
> > 
> > please consider it!
> > 
> > </SCNR>
> > 
> 
> Where is your bugzilla RFE? Don't say you didn't post it to bugzilla :)
> 
> I believe that all your most of your concerns can be dealth through 
> policykit so please put RFE to correct package.

I think you missed the smell of sarcasm on Simo's breath.

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