Local users get to play root?

[Simon Andrews]

Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Jeff Garzik (jgarzik at pobox.com) said: 
>> 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.
> 
> PackageKit has only ever been included in destkop package groups.
> While these groups are enabled by default, they are with the caveat of:
> 
> "The default installation of Fedora includes a set of software
> applicable for general internet usage."

I've just been and checked on our servers, which were installed with 
minimal packages and never used for desktop activities and found two of 
them with PackageKit installed.

Looking at the dependencies there is nothing on those machines which 
currently requires PackageKit so it could be cleanly removed, but 
something has pulled this in as a dependency in the past.

Both of these machines have been through sequential upgrades from around 
FC3.

Changing the behaviour of PackageKit would certainly affect me and I've 
never explicity installed it.


> (This was all easily verifyable, if you'd prefer to look, instead
> of rant.)

That may be true in the current repositories, but it would appear not to 
have always been true.

Simon.