On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 08:13:47PM +0000, Neil MacLeod wrote: > Richard Pickler wrote: > >The second time, I was installing some packages I built myself, and it > >crashed, which I could not recover from. (this one I'll take the blame > >for). > > Why should you take the blame? This is a consumer oriented device and > software installation is promoted as a user feature - it should not brick > the device, period! I'm pretty sure you can install apps from the tableteer certified repository without bricking the device. It's impossible to prevent packages from other repositories from doing so. Package installation can runs arbitrary scripts as root, and you can't prevent root from destroying a Linux system. (Well, maybe if you lock it down with capabilities/SELinux/something else, but it's hard to do so without making unable to do anything useful.) There's a lack of a safe middle ground. Something like the Maemo Extras repository, where the packages (uploaded by the Maemo community) have been tested extensively (again, by the community). Something like the Debian unstable/testing/stable split. Marius Gedminas -- Added mysterious, undocumented --scanflags and --fuzzy options. -- nmap 3.0 announcement -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature Url : http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-users/attachments/20070212/bea34bbc/attachment.pgp
