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Fedora 12 Package Installation Policy Tightened

Posted by kdawson on from the tougher-by-default dept.

AdamWill writes "After the controversy over Fedora 12's controversial package installation authentication policy, including our discussion this week, the package maintainers have agreed that the controversial policy will be tightened to require root authentication for trusted package installation. Please see the official announcement and the development mailing list post for more details."

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  1. It's nothing new from them. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    The Fedora and Red Hat camp has always been pretty clueless. That's probably why they're one of the most popular distros out there. They've done a great job at appealing to the morons and fucktards of the Linux community.

    Had somebody within the Debian, Slackware, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, or OpenSolaris communities suggested what Fedora implemented, they would have been publicly humiliated and disgraced forever on mailing lists and newsgroups.

    I can just imagine Theo tearing some idiot five or six new assholes just for even suggesting the idea, let alone actually doing it.