On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 13:21 -0500, R. G. Newbury wrote: > From: Richard Hughes <hughsient@xxxxxxxxx> > > >I don't think you need to patch gnome-packagekit, just fixing PolicyKit > would do it. You'll still get the nag-dialog, but that's still part of > the design. > > > > I wish this kind of stupid arbitrary restrictions just got removed. > > >It's up to David upstream to make that call, not me. > > > And that would be David WHO, exactly? And what is his email address? > Because I, for one, am really tired of this sort of irritant. > > It does not stop me from doing what I want to do. It just makes it more > difficult and time-consuming. It does not actually enhance security in > any meaningful way. And it disrespects me by implying that I effectively > do not have the brains to come in out of the rain. And it disrespects > every person who wrote the GUI code which you implicitly claim is insecure. ---- I presume that he means David Zeuthen (david@xxxxxxxx) which you would find just by running 'man PolicyKit' Craig -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
