Local users get to play root?

[Seth Vidal]

On Wed, 18 Nov 2009, Jeff Garzik wrote:

> On 11/18/2009 01:04 PM, Seth Vidal wrote:
>> On Wed, 18 Nov 2009, Jon Ciesla wrote:
>>> Seth Vidal wrote:
>>>> You have PackageKit installed on servers? really?
>
>>> I do if it's in the default DVD install, or was pulled in in an
>>> upgrade. I've never intentionally installed it, and yes I do. Never
>>> imagined it would be a problem. I'll remove it.
>
>> Maybe you and I have a different concept of 'Servers'. But I tend to
>> install @core only and then remove items whenever I can for a server.
>
>
> This sounds like a tacit admission that the default install for servers is 
> bloody stupid (== same as desktop), unless the admin REMOVES packages we 
> helpfully installed on the server system.
>
> Does that sound like good engineering to you?
>
> Sorry, this new policy is wildly inconsistent, a special case that will 
> change in F13, we are told.  It is wholly different from the entire history 
> of Linux distributions.

@core doesn't contain anything like that:

http://fpaste.org/Bk9t/

I said I do remove items from @core that I don't need. It was my way of 
saying servers should have as little as possible on them.

-sv