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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. Re:At the risk of being flamed to hell by jedidiah · · Score: 5, Informative

    This is just nonsense, TOTAL NONSENSE.

    Unix users have ALWAYS had the ability to install applications into their own home directory. Ok, so it (maybe) never occured to the authors of Linux package managers to target the users home directory. However, the fact remains that the ability/possibility has always been there. You simply don't need to pollute the system files in order to "install an app" on Unix. That is one of it's key strengths.

    This is why the Fedora guys got skewered.

    Some of us have been "installing applications" in our home directories since before the first line of Linux was written.

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