On Wed, 23 Dec 1998, Chris Garrigues wrote:
-| You've got some interesting reasoning here...
-|
-| > From: John Gonzalez/netMDC admin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
-| > Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 10:32:43 -0700 (MST)
-| >
-| > 3. BEGINNERS that just want to get up and running AFAP
-| > (which, shouldnt be installing mission critical software on an
-| > open internet system that can potentially affect all of us.)
-|
-| They're going to do it anyway. Given this, why shouldn't they be able to run
-| as secure of a system as possible?
Secure? Great! But RPMS dont == Secure.
-| The entirety of your point 4 follows from the fact that "beginners" are
-| installing systems. They install RedHat because it's easy. It's easy in
-| large part because of RPM. To insist that everybody who runs anything on the
-| Internet read and understand all the source code would be absurd; it's almost
-| as absurd to insist that anybody who puts a Unix box on the net know how to
-| install qmail on day one. So, given this, people are going to run some
-| version of Unix and they're not going to fully understand what they're doing.
-| This version of Unix happens to be RedHat, but if it wasn't RedHat it would be
-| something else.
I agree with you there. But as i state, some packages DO NOT need to be
installed if the user is NOT going to know how to use it/secure it/etc.
Some packages NEED to be read before being installed (qmail)...
-| One thing that RPM provides is an easier way to do upgrades. Wouldn't
-| it be better if these "beginners" were automatically notified that
-| there's a security update to their mail program and they should push
-| the stupid little button that corresponds to an "rpm -U qmail*rpm" than
-| to expect them to build the software by hand (and probably forget
-| rcpthosts along the way)?
-| Chris
Sure :) _IF_ these things happened. Which they dont. 90% of all redhat
installers never even check for updates. (90% is my guess)
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