On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 12:41:27 +0100 Harald van Dijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 10:11:59AM +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | > On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 10:53:02 +0100 Harald van Dijk | > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > | ACCEPT_RESTRICT=-userpriv (or whatever) would mean "I want to be | > | protected against accidental mistakes, even if it means I can't | > | install some software." | > | > Which is a silly and arbitrary distinction to make, and users should | > not be encouraged to do so. | | I don't think anyone was planning on encouraging people to mess with | ACCEPT_RESTRICT if it gets implemented.
Implementing it *is* encouraging people to mess with it. There's yet to be any legitimate use for it demonstrated, so its only purpose is to allow people to do very silly things. -- Ciaran McCreesh Mail : ciaranm at ciaranm.org Web : http://ciaranm.org/ Paludis, the secure package manager : http://paludis.pioto.org/
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