Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Fedora generally doesnt deviate from upstream defaults. So what
configuration upstream ships with indeed does matter here.
Errr... except where it suits their fancy - like omitting java
bindings, multimedia plugins, and configuring sendmail not to receive
mail.
It is not a question of fancy. Nobody patches for "fancy".
1) Not sure which java bindings you are referring to but anyone is free
to maintain additional packages in Fedora.
OpenOffice is the particular thing I had in mind, but I suspect there
are others. I'm not talking about additional packages - this is in
reference to your comment about not deviating from upstream.
2) You are probably talking about proprietary multimedia codecs which
are omitted due to licensing reasons. Usually doesnt require changing
any configuration upstream since they are modular components in
gstreamer cleanly split out into -good -bad and -ugly.
I'll give you this one.
3) Security. Daemons connecting to external ports by default is a bad
idea. Well documented reasons. Configuration changes are easier to
manage compared to other kind of patches too.
I suppose if you break a program's intended functionality there's not so
much to maintain. That doesn't seem like a great thing to do, though,
especially without providing an easy/obvious way undo it. In any case
it is hard to imagine any 'upstream' version of sendmail ever delivered
with that configuration.
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Les Mikesell
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