Stuff that should be our target going forward ?

[Máirín Duffy]

On 10/31/2013 09:39 AM, Simo Sorce wrote:
> I think a good server experience will require that yum install firefox
> on a headless system installs all required packages to make it work, is
> this something we need to take care of going forward ?

So stepping back, the use-case being proposed here is:

'Users of Fedora server will be able to install - at their option -
software with graphical interfaces, and they will be able to
successfully use these graphical interfaces via trusted X-forwarding
(ssh -Y).'

I think that this doesn't work for the particular example you gave is a
bug; maybe there's a problem with the package.

>From my perspective though, the use case is a good one, particularly if
we're trying to make our server accessible to Microsofty admin types
with minimal Linux experience. To use myself as an example: I suck as a
sysadmin, but I have needed this in the past (particularly to use
system-config-firewall on a remote system because I suck at editing
iptables config by hand!)

The only concern that the more technical folks like you could address
here - there are security implications on installing the whole set of
stacks/libraries necessary to get a GUI app running on a server, right?
If so,

(1) Do we care, or is it the user opting in to this that needs to take
responsibiltiy.

(2) Do we have any kind of mechanism we can use to help account for the
potential damage? (E.g, just a stupid random idea, but, if the user is
just going in for a one-time / infrequent iptables config, have the GUI
stuff set an expiration date at which time it gets removed to lessen the
risk of having it installed?)

~m