Once upon a time, Mike McGrath <mmcgrath(a)redhat.com> said:
I think that's too subjective though.
What is subjective about "allowing unprivileged to do things that
previously only root could do"?
I'd be more in favor of a simple,
broad view of what the user should be able to do without root. It's
possible "install packages" would be on that list, it's possible not.
That way packages could ask themselves "does this break the policy?" If
it doesn't, great. If it does, time for a bug report.
There have been bug reports, but they get closed by the maintainers as
NOTABUG, so that procedure is obviously not working.
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Chris Adams <cmadams(a)hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.