On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 05:13:00PM +0200, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: > On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 17:03, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > > and "punish" the upstream users, including ourselves? interesting. > > This issue can be easily fixed with package builds. > suppose i prefer configure && make && stow ...
> I'd assume people that don't use a form packaging on their systems > should be knowledgeable enough to read the docs and fix this issue by > hand. How much effort is it to suid root the binary anyway if you > really don't want to figure out how to setup the device access? > are you kidding? do you really expect every new user to do a bughunt as the first thing? also, don't underestimate the "usage rate" of the upstream build system. it is the de-facto standard of installing 3rd-party unix software. > > ugly is this paranoia wrt just making it suid root. > > What about the concept of "least necessary access"? > what about the concept of "user friendliness"? yes, there is a tradeoff. well, everywhere is. > You ignore the possibility of eventualities in the future. > what type of eventualities do you talk about? -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! -- Chaos, panic, and disorder - my work here is done. _______________________________________________ Mc-devel mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc-devel