On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 06:39:50PM -0400, seth vidal wrote: > You want a technical solution to a socio-political problem. > > They historically don't work. For evidence of these see Bruce Schneiers > website. :) They work very well providing they exist to persuade people and guide them not to enforce [1]. It isn't enforcement we need but guidance There is a very good case for "Package [foo] from 'unimploded-wombats-repository' wishes to replace glibc in your base system. This may lead to future update or incompatibility problems. Are you sure Y/N" There is no case for "Package [foo] is trying to replace a base package. This is evil and we have decreed Axel sucks"; exit 1 Alan [1] I would suggest reading "The Design of Everyday Things" for a thousand examples. Or for a simple modern one consider an ATM. When you take money out it gives you the card back first and waits for you to remove it. This is a very successful technical solution to a social problem (forgetfulness). It is not an enforcement system however as you can still leave your card behind if you wish. Other mundane technical solutions to social problems include things like money (complexity and reliability of barter trading). -- 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
