Richard Zidlicky <r...@linux-m68k.org> writes: > Mounting the fs read only is much easier and safer - and has long tradition.
This is not feasible as a distribution policy. You can't guarantee that /usr/bin is on its own partition so you can mount it read only. The only way to achieve it would be creative use of mount --bind, something which certainly goes against tradition. Also, the advantage of the proposed change was that it would not affect e.g. yum upgrade. Creative use of mount --bind could perhaps achieve the same result, but not in a way which I consider sane. All in all I think it's a shame that the original proposal didn't work out at this time. Having binaries owned by bin:bin does have Unix (but not Linux AFAIK) tradition behind it. /Benny -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
