On 1/5/07, Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 03:43:58PM -0700, Dax Kelson wrote: > On Fri, 2007-01-05 at 17:27 -0500, Paul W. Frields wrote: > > I don't think merging the repos makes any of > > the existing reasons for doing away with this selection any less sound. > > Of course it does. The major argument bandied about for the removal of > 'Everything' was the creation of extras. > > It is useful for a variety of situations. Examples? What problem are you actually trying to solve? > Many, many, people have asked for it back. That doesn't mean it's the right thing to do. Many people have asked for all sorts of misguided features. Thankfully most of the time, sanity has prevailed.
Yes, one of the most requested items we got after 5.0 was "Could you make it so passwords were not needed for root default?" this later morphed into "Please make it so that anyone can run anything by default" ... and the routine that someone wanted us to have so that if you pinged a port it would reset all the passwords on the system. "Great for our ISP to manage boxes when the owner has locked himself out." -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- CSIRT/Linux System Administrator How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice" -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
