On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 9:47 PM, Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.com> wrote:
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...
of course standard linux server enviroment...we're in linux world, aha... home users can install that package to fulfill his needs and take the risks himself. (like installing non-oss packages, there'll be a pop-up warning) at least at that time we have a standard way for such needs...nowadays those non-security experts have to tweak one by one...really hard and may break the whole system... marguerite
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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