On Fri, 08 Jan 2010 12:17:02 +0100, Thomas Janssen wrote: > 2010/1/7 Zing <zing@xxxxxxxxxxx>: >> On Thu, 07 Jan 2010 14:02:24 -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote: >> >>> On Thu, 07 Jan 2010 15:24:05 +0100 >>> Till Maas <opensource@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>>> You propose that the repo should be enabled by default if the package >>>> is installed. I don't like this. This make it a lot easier to break a >>>> system with Rawhide, if one installs the repo file, e.g. only to be >>>> able to easily download the src.rpm files with yumdownloader or to >>>> query it with repoquery, but not to actually install the unsigned >>>> packages from it. >>> >>> How many folks do this? I suppose this is a downside... we could also >>> ship it with default disabled, so you would need to install and then >>> enable it. >> >> What makes you think these same users won't then also edit and enable >> rawhide at this point? > > Because the type of users we speak of, just enable *blindly* whatever > repo is available by a *default* installation. Those type of users > *dont* read at all, neither descriptions coming with a package nor > websites. So the barrier is much higher for them to break their boxen. Well, yeah, my question was rhetorical... I guess my point was the barrier can't get high enough for the class of user we're talking about. I get a little grumpy when we make changes for these type of people. sorry. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
