On 14 July 2015 at 14:58, Thomas Langkamp
Sadly, as described here, this would make openSUSE liable for any patent infringement by encouraging our users to install patent encumbered software, or possibly even guilty of "facilitation of crime"
Thanks Richard for your reply :) Are you saying that there is a difference between providing
"yast / repos / add community repo"
and the same functionality as a desktop icon? Interesting. But Why? Only because the one is more hidden than the other? I cannot imagine how this would make a difference in court, but I am no lawyer also.
Precisely (and I recently double checked this with our lawyers) One is clearly identified as 'not provided by the openSUSE Project' and it's a clear opt-in..the user has to go to it, know what it's for, and do it The other, is a big flashing button that says 'hey, the openSUSE Project says you can get your codecs here'..
So what about my other points?
- when adding packman: automagically add packman with a 98 priority & allow vendor change once & automatically apply zypper up or dup afterwards (those more knowledgable should still be enabled to change priority / vendor change of course; this is about sane defaults for noobs)
I dislike this idea - I do not automatically favour Packman packages above openSUSE's, because openSUSE's are tested and Packmans are not
- install recommends: only once during installation as default
Neutral to the idea - this is similar to how I set up my servers (so I guess +1 in that scenario), but not my desktops (so -1 in that use case)
- automatically update/grade the OS daily: by executing zypper up or dup in the background (via cron-job or graphical utility?) AFAIK apper still cannot propose solutions for conflicts and thus might not be feasible for this job.
I dislike this idea because of the lack of user-interaction, but it's not that dissimilar from how PackageKit already works in GNOME (Downloads in the background, but requires user interaction to actually install stuff)
- Require minimal user intervention for the update/grade: require sudo password if new software is installed, but not when existing software is updated; but let the user know if he needs to restart or log-off.
No way in heck - Root access should be required to change the software on an openSUSE machine - SysAdmin 101
- partialy unrelated: let flash stay for the noobs, those more knowledgable can uninstall / block it
I disagree, I'd rather we remove something so terribly insecure as Flash by default, and let the people who need it put it on there. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org