On 12/18/2016 01:05 AM, Alec Leamas wrote:
I think Ralf refers to the rules for games and emulators simply because this is 
a game application.

Not quite. I am primarily looking at this from the angle of "distro integrity" and "system security".

That said, I consider any package
- "calling home" to be violating "data privacy"
- "downloading something" to a security risk.
- installing something outside of rpm's control to be non-maintainable.

However, IMHO the answer here really  depends the type of the database 
downloaded from the server.

I don't know anything about this game, but my gut feeling is the risk such a game implies should be considered inacceptable.

Can you exclude these game files can be abused for viruses, troyans and other backdoor? Can you exclude these servers doesn't spy at you or collect personalized data? I don't think anybody can.

Anyway, in Fedora, we in general mandate "call homes" to be removed and mandate packages to be "self-contained".


Ralf

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