On 2009-05-31_14:03:06, thveillon.debian wrote: > marc wrote: > > Jan Willem Stumpel said: > > > >> IMHO disabling an old and trusted functionality is simply introducing a > >> bug, made worse by keeping silent about it (no word about it in > >> changelog.gz or NEWS.Debian.gz). > >> > >> It must surely be a tiny minority of users who press > >> control-alt-backspace "by mistake"; I find it hard to imagine even. But > >> for users who suffer from this syndrome there has always been the > >> possibility of specifying DontZap. Forcing it on all users is a Bad > >> Thing. > > > > > > +1 > > > +1 > > Note to self : disabling "rm" and "fdisk" commands, catching "shutdown" > and "reboot" commands to make them fail silently unless they are issued > five times in a row in less than 1 minute, dumbing down all system > settings and removing root access in KDE4 "systemsettings" (oh! it's > already been done, good...), don't let myself install "dangerous" > packages (nmap, parted, ...). Remove root account (oh! not again! It's > already been done too.). To be continued. > Don't try to protect people from their ignorance, enlighten them.
Debian does not subscribe to some configuration decisions that are common practice in the external world. I think silently changing this feature of X is something to which Debian should not subscribe. I hope that X, as packaged by Debian, will continue to have this feature enabled, regardless of what the rest of the world does. I was reminded of this creeping nannyism recently when a new user of Debian was apparently unaware of the existence of the su command. He apparently believed that sudo was the only way to gain access to super-user rights, and was distraut when it didn't work on his new Debian Lenny installation. He asked a question that was totally misunderstood because it was worded in a very misleading way for the Debian context. -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
