On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 16:10 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 14:53 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote: > > Kevin Kofler wrote: > > > Ralf Corsepius <rc040203@...> writes: > > >> Also, I am not sure if the PackageGuideLines allow packages downloading > > >> documents from external sources. > > > > > > Of course they do! > > >>From the "Hey, let's remove Firefox, it 'downloads documents from external > > > sources'!" dept., > > > > Methinks Ralf was referring to build-time downloading, not run-time > > downloading. > Me was referring to unattended background downloads of data files > (configuration- files, data files, text files). > > Concerns along the lines "What puts mock into a special position" that > it is allowed to automatically pull *config* files unsupervised from a > remote location: > > Wrt. this, I don't see how mock is any different from > * applications contacting a remote counter each time they start up. > * games loading their game data from a remote file. > * applications dynamically installing plug ins from remote. > ... > > Another concern are usability (fedoraproject.org bottlenecking mock), > and security. That's like saying that yum should ship with all the metadata it will ever need b/c it shouldn't be allowed to download files from the network. mock isn't downloading anything special, yum, being used by mock, is. -sv -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list
