On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 10:16 -0400, seth vidal wrote: > 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. Yum is *SPECIAL* > mock isn't downloading anything special, yum, being used by mock, is. mock is an arbitrary application. Ralf -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list
