• [^] # Re: Au moins avec Fedora 12

    Posté par . En réponse à la dépêche Fedora 12 « Constantine » est disponible. Évalué à 3.

    Un mail qui fait le point :
    http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-Novemb(...)

    Il y avait une "stratégie" mûrement réfléchie :
    The idea was that the change in PolicyKit would be accompanied by a
    default set of roles, and a nice user interface for assigning users to
    roles. Unfortunately, with the constraints of time, it became clear that
    this all (and especially the GUI) wasn't going to be there for Fedora
    12. So, PackageKit needed a fixed policy for all users.
    For each action
    (install signed packages, install unsigned packages, remove packages,
    etc.), it needed to allow, deny, or ask for the root password.

    Among the decisions Richard made was allowing all users to install
    signed packages from the Fedora repositories. This was clearly the right
    behavior for the common case of a single-user system, where the only
    user is also the administrator. And it seemed pretty safe: Fedora isn't
    supposed to have packages in it that are dangerous to install. (For
    example, by policy, all network services must be off by default and not
    enabled by simply installing a package.)