We need a new subject- bug fixes
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Sun Mar 4 20:59:40 UTC 2007
Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>>> Fedora generally doesnt deviate from upstream defaults. So what
>>> configuration upstream ships with indeed does matter here.
>>
>> Errr... except where it suits their fancy - like omitting java
>> bindings, multimedia plugins, and configuring sendmail not to receive
>> mail.
>
> It is not a question of fancy. Nobody patches for "fancy".
>
> 1) Not sure which java bindings you are referring to but anyone is free
> to maintain additional packages in Fedora.
OpenOffice is the particular thing I had in mind, but I suspect there
are others. I'm not talking about additional packages - this is in
reference to your comment about not deviating from upstream.
> 2) You are probably talking about proprietary multimedia codecs which
> are omitted due to licensing reasons. Usually doesnt require changing
> any configuration upstream since they are modular components in
> gstreamer cleanly split out into -good -bad and -ugly.
I'll give you this one.
> 3) Security. Daemons connecting to external ports by default is a bad
> idea. Well documented reasons. Configuration changes are easier to
> manage compared to other kind of patches too.
I suppose if you break a program's intended functionality there's not so
much to maintain. That doesn't seem like a great thing to do, though,
especially without providing an easy/obvious way undo it. In any case
it is hard to imagine any 'upstream' version of sendmail ever delivered
with that configuration.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
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