On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 10:18:52 -0400 "Owen Taylor" <otaylor@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I have a *strong* opinion here that it's *never*, *ever* right to ask > the user a question when installing or removing a package. A question > is going to be of the form: > > A) This operation may trash your system [detail that the user doesn't > understand removed]. Proceed? > > B) The package that you are installing might be created by an evil > haxor and do bad things [details that the user doesn't understand > removed]. Proceed? For me it's not asking the users these questions, it's asking the user for their password to proceed (with a timeout). OSX does this, and we seem to base a lot of our "good usability" on what they do. If a friend wants to just look at their web mail, why should they switch users to a guest account? Why can't I just hand them the laptop and let them use the already running browser? If something popped up to install software I don't want them to be able to just have it happen, I want the password prompt to show up so that if they aren't me, or weren't me that provided a password in the last 5 minutes, I don't want them to be able to do it. I don't think this is unreasonable as a default everywhere. It's just like we made the local user(s) sudo enabled and rely upon that sudo mechanism to accomplish system level tasks. -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- All my bits are free, are yours?
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