Control: tags -1 + wontfix
Hello Guenter, 2008-01-22 09:25 G. Milde:
Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.10-1+b1 Severity: wishlist Dear Daniel, with the new field for a packages homepage, it would be nice to have a menu entry and hotkey to open a "sensible-browser" with the Homepage URL of the current package (with no action, if there is no Homepage specified).
I am marking this bug as +wontfix, mainly because it's been for 7+ years without being implemented, so I don't see it happening any time soon. Also, because implementing this kind of features with a package that often runs as root and sometimes remotely is tricky because: - can become a security liability (and aptitude has a wide enough attack surcface already), for example: - one would have to make sure that the field is not malicious and cannot be abused before passing it to another tool, etc - running the browser as root is even more problematic - root doesn't necessarily have permission to run graphical applications if it was launched as another user, specially if run remotely - even if it works when running it remotely, simply triggering the action (which can maybe be done by mistake) can have undesired effects like launch the browser in a way in which uses the remote X protocol and take lots of time on slow connections, and maybe it is not easy to cancel (specially if the intense flow data blocks the connection) So I don't really think that it's a good idea to implement this, because it's like opening a can of worms; and even if it was it means a considerable amount of work, and I think that at the moment the scarce time would be better spent in other more pressing problems. Cheers. -- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ Aptitude-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/aptitude-devel
