El Tue, 15-06-2010 a las 00:36 +0930, Sridhar Dhanapalan escribió:
# yum install gnome-packagekit
This opens several dilemmas:
1) olpc-update and rpm don't play well together. Normally, I'd tend to kill the home-brew solution in favor of the upstream supported one, but yum still has unsolvable issues, especially on the XO-1.
2) it's easy to break your system by installing fancy packages, or too many large packages. You could even open security holes.
3) users can use packagekit even to uninstall system packages
4) Even our stripped-down GNOME desktop offers enough dangerous knobs which some "adventurous" users exploit to break their system configuration in many non-obvious ways.
This is not speculation. we're actually receiving plenty of complaints from teachers and technicians. In response, we've taught them how to reset the desktop configuration to defaults with this crude method:
rm -rf .gconf .gnome2 .config
We cannot assume our target audience to act responsibly and rationally. Even for adults, some desktop distros provide a simplified UI listing only popular desktop applications. GNOME also offers some lock-down options from kiosk mode, which we should consider for the XO.