Am 08.02.2012 13:35, schrieb Michael Scherer: > Le mercredi 08 février 2012 à 08:47 -0300, Renaud (Ron) Olgiati a > écrit : >> On Wednesday 08 Feb 2012 08:37 my mailbox was graced by a message from >> Claire >> Robinson who wrote: >>>> I ended up installing Mageia 1 on his box, but I wonder why does the >>>> distribution allow the user to potentially hose his system, when it >>>> requires the root password to install a prog ? >>>> Would it not make more sense to ask for the root password for the updates? >>> It is configurable in MCC. You can find it under Security => Configure >>> authentication for Mageia Tools. >>> Just select root for Update. >> Brilliant, thanks. >> >> But would it not make more sense to have the default changed to root ? > That totally miss the point, which is that a upgrade hosed the system. > Would requiring the root password have changed that ? I doubt. > > However, if the user cannot do upgrade without asking to someone else > ( because that's the whole point of having 2 different passwords, else, > that's just a nuisance that will confuse most people ), then he will > likely miss security and bugfixes updates, and that's problematic. > > And I truly doubt that having a separate person ( ie, asking to someone > else who has the root password ) would have avoid any issues due to > upgrade. I am pretty sure that both of us would have also updated the > computer. > > The risk is the lack of QA, and I have been repeating this since a long > time. If people cannot trust updates, they will use them, and they face > issues and security problems, and that will tarnish our reputation, > among others. Well, you also miss the point if the cause for this breakage (maybe some packages that are currently missing/only available in an older version compared to Mandriva) is not reported, we can't really fix it, no?
So just telling: "An upgrade from Mandriva broke my machine" will do no good at all, IMHO.
