Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (883 mails)

[Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday, May 22, 2012 15:40:44 Marguerite Su wrote:
> Hi, Andreas,
>
> personally I think we'd better separate standard Linux server
> environment from single-user  home desktop environment. they're
> totally different....and desktop users are growing in recent years in
> our forums(openSUSE is almost the only usable distro for home use)

But what should be the default - and what other options should we have?

For openSUSE, the main usage szenario is desktop. But I hear we have many 
single user machines but also those with a separate admin...

> eg: I would like YaST2 never ask me root password to install software,
> since it's my laptop and no one else can use it...but it'll surely be
> banned in a security expert's eyes, and I don't know how to adjust it
> for myself
>
> (no flame war like Linus did, of course I defend and vote for
> openSUSE, but one comment in it is good for me: it's easier for
> security persons to enable it than grandma to disable it)
>
> so mix them up may generate no balanced results and may trigger
> another flame war in our forums...
>
> I hope we may/can have a package called polkit-default-home-use or
> something to fulfill that kind of needs....of course too hurry for
> 12.2, may be later

Andreas
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