On Wednesday 20 August 2008 22:04:09 George N. White III wrote: > One of the difficulties in discussing these issues is that no > one person is likely to encounter the full range of environments > that need to be supported. There are very different security and > control problems for a server running R to produce offical statistics > than for a student's personal workstation. Certainly security can > be enhanced if we minimize the use of root to manage end-user apps. This is an issue with lots of gray shadings. If we place virtualization on the board we have another level. :-) > This says we need to move to a multi-level packaging approach that > supports packaged installs under user/group control without root > privileges. Well this is easier said than done. :-) Although I agree that you right and that there are bigger fishes to fry, my interest was just to place Fedora and R in a context that allowed us to have more R packages in Fedora done and at the same time not forgetting the lessons that were learned from packaging other languages (specifically Perl and Python). -- José Abílio _______________________________________________ Fedora-r-devel-list mailing list Fedora-r-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-r-devel-list
