Fedora 12 Package Installation Policy Tightened

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."

Comments

Attitude

[Island Admin]

What really got me about this one was the attitude some developers had ... constantly trying to justify their correctness, despite the huge backlash from users. I feel the trust relationship is kinda broken ... but at least they finally came around and listened.

Dunno man, but

[Giant Electronic Bra]

The whole Fedora Team's creation of and response to this issue creates very serious doubt in my mind about their ability to manage a distribution and their understanding of proper security policy. I think they've got to open up their decision making process more and learn to communicate better. An idea this bad should have been squashed 5 minutes after it was proposed instead of being allowed to actually make it into a released distribution.

At least it all shows that the community still ultimately calls the shots.