Re: 5tFTW: Fedora 21, 22, and 19, firewall discussion, and holiday break

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Am 18.12.2014 um 16:43 schrieb Bastien Nocera:
On the other hand, if you install something and it starts listening and
you didn’t know that,

If you install something from Fedora and it does that, then it's a bug in
the
application.

No.  It's you solving your problem with gnome-user-share and declaring
the fallout somebody elses problem so you can safely ignore it.

It's in the packaging guidelines that server applications shouldn't auto-start.
It's not like I'm making this up...

you still don't get it:

a operating system is *not only* for running software out of the distributions repos and hence it has to have secure defaults in *any* case and *even if* there is a package with a bug *the whole purpose* of a firewall is to *protect* against bugs

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