Does Window$ and MacO$ users, with all "facilities" and "system security controls" they have in their OSes are protected from shooting themselves in the foot? I don't think so.
In this case particularly I don't think the risk is too big, since global customizations must be done only by root. I think that on the cited commercial OSes global customizations, that can break the entire system, can be easily done by any user. On 7/15/05, Michael Marineau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mike Frysinger wrote: > > On Friday 15 July 2005 06:56 pm, Herbert Fischer wrote: > > > >>Thanks... I saw that "bug" and saw that it is very old (from 2002) and > >>nothing was done. Did you know why? > > > > > > hmm, us baselayout guys have discussed it before, but i guess we've never > > posted to the bug > > > > the only thing we really have against it is the potential of developer > > abuse ... that is, we feel that ebuild authors should *never* install a file > > there, it should only ever contain files created by the user > > -mike > > Does the risk of abuse outweigh the potential usefulness that much? My > vote would be to do more of this sort of thing. Reducing the > oppertunity for users to shoot themselves in the foot would be good. > > speeking of shooting feet, it's be a pretty interesting statistic to see > how many times people have borked their system by accidently replacing > their fstab :-P > > -- > Michael Marineau > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Gentoo Linux Developer > Oregon State University > > > -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
