On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 1:15 PM, James Antill <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Fri, 2008-04-25 at 12:40 -0400, max bianco wrote: > > > You are working very hard to intentionally misunderstand where I am > > coming from, easy is not always better. I understand your arguments > > and they are sound. Fine and good , I am merely voicing my concerns. > > You seem to be working hard to bring up "possible" problems with zero > evidence that they will be actual problems. While ignoring: > > 1. The current state is causing _actual_ problems for a lot of people. > > 2. A huge number of experienced people hack all their systems in this > way already, due to the pain of the current system, so the current state > is getting little to no testing. > > > > Will you address this concern?or continue to ignore it? What about the > > user who hoses his system with fdisk by accident? Will he love Fedora > > for it? > > Unix, esp. on the cmd line as had a long history of not second guessing > the user ... you want to break your system with fdisk, and you have the > privileges ... then fine, you broke it. > > A couple of questions for you: > > . How can a non-root user break his system with fdisk? The point is this, what use is having fdisk in your path if you can't use it for what it is intended. > > . If a user gains root privileges, why do you think the "right" thing to > do is keep him unaware of programs he can run? There isn't one but maybe you could tell me how you locate a command you can't find on any linux/unix box? > > . Are you planning on making "rm -rf *" (or varients thereof) not break > a non-root users system? > No again you are thinking you are the only user. Linux/unix was designed as a multiuser system. Windows was designed as a single user system, hence all the problems that it has. The keyword here is multi-user! Max -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
