Il 28/12/21 04:28, Kevin Kofler via devel ha scritto: > Matthew Miller wrote: >> 1. There is a mechanism for users to add their own digest lists, if they >> want. The change proposal could be a little more clear on how this >> would work. > There is no way I am going to jump through hoops to whitelist software I > compiled myself, or installed from a third-party repository, out of a > hardware-enforced vendor lock-in that attempts to deny me Freedom Zero > (contradicting the "Freedom" in the "Four F's" of Fedora). > >> 2. The proposal calls for a checkbox in Anaconda to enable the feature. >> (We probably do not actually want a checkbox in Anaconda, though.) It >> also says "The feature might be enabled later by the user without any >> change required for the image generation" — which I think is primarily >> saying that the feature could be turned on without needing to remake >> the boot image, but which also seems to also say that it's not >> necessarily on by default. > Hopefully really only *by the user* and not, e.g., by the upgrade to a newer > Fedora release. > > But even off by default, I do not see how the "feature" implemented by this > Change provides any value at all that does not contradict the very > definition of Free Software. > > Kevin Kofler
I do not see how this change goes against the definition of Free Software. It doesn't deny a user to install any software they want, it is about preventing unwanted/unsolicited/malevolent software from being installed without user (admin) approval. From a workstation/desktop user perspective, this change sounds not really interesting, at least until there will be some robust integration with UI installers. And I personally appreciate it will be introduced as opt-in. But from an IT perspective running a server, I think it sounds good (I'm not IT manager myself). And since Fedora is RHEL playground... Mattia _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
