Fedora firestorm and thoughts

[Craig White]

On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 12:00 -0700, Dazed_75 wrote:
> There seems to be a firestorm going on with regard to a change in the
> newly released Fedora 12.  
> 
> http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/11/18/2039229/Fedora-12-Lets-Users-Install-Signed-Packages-Sans-Root-Privileges?art_pos=1
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=534047
> 
> How much this has blown up from being "slashdotted" is not an issue
> IMHO.  And I agree that it was a horrible decision to make that change
> be the default.  I do hope they revert it.  My belief is that if they
> wanted such a change it is important enough they should have retained
> the old behavior and made an option to implement the new only by
> someone having root privileges and proving it.
> 
> But the real reason for this post is that I have noticed what might be
> a trend in recent releases.  It feels like a trend to me and I find
> that bothersome.  The trend I am talking about is for new releases to
> change defaults and content in ways that so many reviews and tips are
> focussed on how to revert the "improvements" to the prior art.  
> 
> For example, there are many positive reviews for Karmic Koala (ubuntu
> 9.10) along with the usual problem reports.  But it seems that many of
> the problem solutions and tips being published are how to "fix" Karmic
> back to the way ubuntu used to work.  Now this thing with Fedora 12.
> I get concerned when it seems like we risk our advantages of better
> security and stability.  I'm all for ease of use and innovation but I
> wonder if some changes are going too far and too fast.
> 
> I have also noted that many changes are made to make things easier for
> new users (a good thing) but along the Microsoft model of assuming
> users must be stupid ... errr .... don't need/want to know.  Is that
> bothering anyone else?
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by the way, this has been handled...

http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-November/msg01445.html

Craig


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