On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 09:14 -0700, Christopher Stone wrote: > The reason it was closed was because Seth totally misunderstood what > the RFE was trying to accomplish. Set thought that we were trying to > make it impossible or extremely difficult for 3rd parth repos. to > override base packages when the opposite is true. We want to make it > easy for them to do this, but we want the user to have to take an > extra step in order to enable them to do this. And this extra step > should warn the user about the consequences of enabling this. > > We are *trying* to protect unknowning and unsuspecting users here. > No, I'm pretty sure I understood what you wanted to do. I just think that implementing in software that which should be handled in social interaction and policy is a bad idea. You want a technical solution to a socio-political problem. They historically don't work. For evidence of these see Bruce Schneiers website. :) -sv -- Fedora-maintainers mailing list Fedora-maintainers@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers -- Fedora-maintainers-readonly mailing list Fedora-maintainers-readonly@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers-readonly
