Attention: Proprietary video driver users (ATI, Nvidia, etc.)

Davide Bolcioni db-fedora at 3di.it
Thu Feb 23 11:24:13 UTC 2006


Rudolf Kastl wrote:

> my personal conclusion:
> 
> While there should be mechanisms to turn off the "rpm file protection"
> it would by default be nice since users stop wrecking their systems
> and reporting bogus bugs.

A boolean named "invalidate_rhel_support_contract", false by default, 
should fit the bill. This protection would not apply to configuration
or data files, of course, only to files which have no need to be 
writable for ordinary execution.

Regards,
Davide Bolcioni
-- 
Paranoia is a survival asset.




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