Michael Tiernan wrote: > On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 3:00 PM: > [...] > > I know that sometimes this is needed, no argument but I think that the > Solaris crowd had a better .... no, wrong word.... a more innate and > fundamental understanding of the need for minimizing the places for > security mistakes. > > If you create a system to be a stand-alone webserver on the fringe of > your company network, you don't want to install lots of things such as > compiler tools and/or GUI pieces and libraries. Solaris always seemed > to do this better. > > Yea, they had a lot to learn too...... > It might have been so well thought out and deliberate, though. Perhaps it happened because you couldn't just magically 'yum install my_favourite_package' and have all of the dependencies (equally magically) appear on the system. Since the builder of 'my_favourite_package' had to go through the pain of installing all of the dependent packages yourself, said installer was probably as lazy as me, and didn't reference extra packages that would need extra work to install when deploying the package.
It may not have actually worked that way, but it might have done... To paraphrase several people: "Don't ascribe to diligence and order that which can be equally ascribed to sloth and labour avoidance." - Richard _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
