[Mageia-discuss] beta2 woes and no graphical root (tonyb)

[Maarten Vanraes]

Op dinsdag 10 april 2012 17:49:42 schreef Frank Griffin:
> On 04/10/2012 11:25 AM, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
> > 2012/4/10 Anne Wilson<annew at kde.org>:
> >> On 10/04/12 15:19, Renaud (Ron) Olgiati wrote:
> >>> And remember too that Linux is all about user's choice; none of
> >>> the "We are XXXXX of Borg, resistance is futile, you will do
> >>> exactly what we tell you".
> >> 
> >> True indeed, but if someone wants to commit suicide we do have a moral
> >> duty not to supply the gun and teach him how to load it.
> > 
> > Except for society's sake! :)
> 
> There is a big difference between turning something off by default and
> deliberately breaking an upstream feature that can only be enabled by
> someone knowledgeable enough to edit a configuration file.  I would say
> that if KDM supports this, and a sysadmin wants it, it's not our place
> to remove the feature unconditionally.
> 
> What do we break next ? Remote X logins ?

iinm it started as a technical issue and noone stepped up to want to maintain 
this feature, so it's not there.

this besides that it's a bad idea, of course...

we need to keep every choice open, but we need to restrict the newbie by 
default. someone who knows what he's doing can likely get this to work, after 
makeing some changes... but i'm not gonna spend time on it.