Proposal: fedora-release-rawhide subpackage
Zing
zing at fastmail.fm
Thu Jan 7 22:36:59 UTC 2010
On Thu, 07 Jan 2010 14:02:24 -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> On Thu, 07 Jan 2010 15:24:05 +0100
> Till Maas <opensource at till.name> wrote:
>
>> You propose that the repo should be enabled by default if the package
>> is installed. I don't like this. This make it a lot easier to break a
>> system with Rawhide, if one installs the repo file, e.g. only to be
>> able to easily download the src.rpm files with yumdownloader or to
>> query it with repoquery, but not to actually install the unsigned
>> packages from it.
>
> How many folks do this? I suppose this is a downside... we could also
> ship it with default disabled, so you would need to install and then
> enable it.
What makes you think these same users won't then also edit and enable
rawhide at this point? It's not much of a stretch to think these
seemingly innocent users might see this "rawhide" package, install, and
then also enable it; in fact, ISTM, a package that they don't have that
promises some type of newest whizbang gadgets that they're missing out on
might entice more of this class of user. :(
Might I suggest:
$ chattr +i /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-rawhide.repo
just kidding, well, half-kidding :)
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