What is the reason for passim being recommended for removal? #14

lucasmz commented 2025年11月12日 21:42:54 +01:00

You had some thoughts on PackageKit, and it convinced me, being stored on RAM, I'm wondering about passim, is there any security/privacy issue with it?

You had some thoughts on PackageKit, and it convinced me, being stored on RAM, I'm wondering about passim, is there any security/privacy issue with it?

ContentedGoat commented 2025年11月12日 21:57:12 +01:00

It was more of a consent thing. fwupd on Fedora pulls it in by default and it is automatically enabled in systemd.
I think that is awful wrong for a lan-listening network service.

And it has very little use unless you have many (similar) machines, more beneficial for an enterprise environment.
Which is weird, because most enterprise networks block client<>client network traffic.

If you want to use it, it is probably OKish.

It was more of a consent thing. fwupd on Fedora pulls it in by default and it is automatically enabled in systemd. I think that is awful wrong for a lan-listening network service. And it has very little use unless you have many (similar) machines, more beneficial for an enterprise environment. Which is weird, because most enterprise networks block client<>client network traffic. If you want to use it, it is probably OKish.