On Saturday 04 May 2013 04:58:13 Matthew Garrett wrote:
No, this isn't the most appropriate mailing list for the discussion - anaconda-devel-list is a better choice if you want to interact with the people who actually work on that code.
What separate a Linux distro from a random batch of software is *policy* and what happened here is a radical policy change without any *prior* discussion.
Why only installation? By the same token we should apply this logic to any other password entry -- should this go according to each packager taste?
IMO, this kind of change belongs first to fedora-devel and *than* to Fesco.
(and I'm still repeating my previous question in this thread -- are any security related people involved? Or do we assume their opinion on the subject matter isn't relevant)