F21 Self Contained Change: Security Policy In The Installer

[Adam Williamson]

On Fri, 2014-03-14 at 11:22 -0400, Jan Lieskovsky wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 06:25:03AM -0400, Jan Lieskovsky wrote:
> > 
> > > One hypothetical [*] scenario coming to my mind being the users might be
> > > willing to provide customized policy content to Fedora installation. Let's
> > > suppose the case there is a SCAP content for vulnerability checking (and
> > > ensuring
> > > some restrictions) for Fedora systems. Something like is done for Red Hat
> > > Enterprise Linux case:
> > >    https://www.redhat.com/security/data/metrics/
> > 
> > This seems pretty niche.
> 
> I am not sure how niche case this is or not. Was just an example when this
> might be desired.
> 
> > The cost associated with it is UI that makes no
> > sense to most users but is presented to them by default anyway. I think
> > we should concentrate on finding a way to make this possible without
> > compromising the common case.
> 
> Would making that spoke / field expandable upon click be sufficient?
> (though this might result into situation the feature would went completely
> unnoticed by some users, on the other hand wouldn't mean such big divergence
> from actual state)

I agree with Matt and Bill that this doesn't sound like something
appropriate to display in the installer in the usual case, and I don't
think that idea makes it any better (if anything it just pointlessly
complicates the installer UI).
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