On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 20:15 -0400, Ed Hill wrote: > On Wed, 18 Oct 2006 19:26:38 -0400 Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > 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" > > > Yes! > > And perhaps add a URL to a page containing a more in-depth explanation. > > The aspect that many people (esp. Seth Vidal) seem to be overlooking is > the opportunity to *help* people understand what's happening. And what > the implications are and why. > > People can learn from experience. And people can make more informed > judgements when the information is at hand. > What am I overlooking, exactly? I closed the rfe that wanted this integrated into yum and not handled as a plugin. Nothing keeps this from being done better as a plugin and made available in the default fedora package. However, I don't think this is terribly appropriate code to go into the mainline upstream. -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
