cga2000 wrote: >> Root gets the "failsafe" option for X by default? xterm is mandatory in >> an X install, IIRC. > > Please refer to what Roberto has to say about pointy-head activity in > the enterprise. In the enterprise world there is no guarantee that some > dude will not decide at some point that it's his best interest that > *term's are the devil's work and have them autdafe'd at the earliest > opportunity.
That fell outside my immediate consideration due to a bit of work philosophy I developed a while back that seems to work out well. "Work like you don't need the money." Your employer would fire you for acting like a retard against common sense, and at least in my state, I'm allowed to fire my employer if they're acting stupid. If I had to work under those conditions and $EMPLOYER is unwilling to budge, they'd be looking for my replacement by the end of the same week. This has worked out well for me: I've tripled my income in three years following my own advice[1]. > But I was talking "proof of concept" .. in the world of the average > to-the-gui-born user .. and thinking in terms of CD/DVD's that you just > pop in .. say "yes" to the eula .. click the "next" button a few time .. > done.. > > Not likely _that_ crowd would like the idea of starting an xterm.. > typing in a command to launch the installer .. etc. etc. These people should not be allowed to even have Administrator access on a Windows box. > As such I find the X gui model incomplete and although having gui > installers assume you already have root authority prior to launching > them may be a lesser evil than the proliferation of password-prompting > code in the wrong places .. I'm rather convinced by Roberto's > argumentation .. I find that it's just one more good reason why I'd > rather stick to the non-gui interface. I'm not saying that I really feel good about kpackage's handling of it, either. I seriously question the justification for it's existence given the user behavior demonstrated by the point-and-drool "administrators" you describe. Between that and being an X program expecting a root password, I really think someone needs to justify kpackage's existence before I feel neutral about it. [1] Results may not be typical, your results may vary. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
