On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 05:13:27PM -0400, Deron Meranda wrote: > > What I'm failing to see is how this is a failing of Fedora. You > > installed a non-Fedora package on your system (AdobeReader is not a part > > of Fedora) and it is that non-Fedora package that appears to be doing > > things in the background on your system. You can blame the distro for > > compromising your system when you were the one who circumvented the > > trusted packages list and installed something else. > > > Thanks for the info about xdg. I was unable to find that on my > previous searches, and it doesn't show up in the graphical Gnome > preferences. > > Sorry, I didn't mean to blame the distro; you're right, this was a > third party package problem. ... Except that the Gnome 3 shell doesn't > provide any feedback or information that it will run things in the > background, nor is there any apparent method of listing those things > (from the default install anyway). Look at it from a usability point of view. See that list of apps in the gnome-session-properties app? How distracting/obnoxious/cluttering would it be for Gnome to tell us about every single one of them starting? I can't think of a way for it to notify the user about each of them without being a PITA. > I do blame Adobe though. Yes, I contemplated very long very before > installing acroread because I do try to keep my system extremely pure > .. but alas, the needs to fill out tax forms nudged me over. But > Adobe to their failing did not notify me that their software would > periodically attempt to download and install software on my system > without my knowledge. Bad on them. Yeah, but it's SOP. The Windows version does a (just about every day) download of updates for Adobe. Really, you'd think by now they could get it stabilized, right? :) > Concerning Fedora. This could perhaps be partially guarded against if > there were an SELinux context into which I could label the "foreign" > software -- that would prohibit it from accessing the network, or > running scripts out of /tmp. Is there such a type label that I could > chcon /usr/local/bin/acroread ?? That I don't know. -- Darryl L. Pierce, Sr. Software Engineer @ Red Hat, Inc. Delivering value year after year. Red Hat ranks #1 in value among software vendors. http://www.redhat.com/promo/vendor/
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