于 2010年08月05日 23:37, Andrew SB 写道: > On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 11:02 AM, Stephan Hermann <[email protected]> wrote: >> We had that in the past, and this will happen with unreflected usage of >> tools like this. (Please read the threads about Automatix and Friends in >> the past...google have references) > > For reference, here's Matthew Garrett's technical review of Automatix: > > http://mjg59.livejournal.com/77440.html > > Re-reading that now, I note that the issue of adding untrusted third > party sources doesn't seem to be the argument against Automatix. > > - Andrew SB >
I've read through the paragraphs, the several things Matthew has written are about some (serious) problems that Automatix had: poor packaging quality, security problems, etc. But ubuntu-tweak doesn't have those problems: 1.Debian packaging stuff are in good shape. 2.Run as a common user application, only prompt for privilege when actually needed, it uses policykit to manage the authorizing and privileged sessions. 3.Written in python completely, so it does not have cross-platform issues (expected for Python is cross-platform). 4.Use python-apt backend to support software installation progress currently, and planning to switch to packagekit/aptdaemon in near future, so there is no problem on maintaining a full package dependency or do some unsuitable actions such as `kill -9 dpkg' in Automatix. 5.Third party software is only from Launchpad PPAs, no need to concern about building some software from source or other binaries and have files not tracked in dpkg's info database. PPAs in the list are selected, which are believed to be used by many other users and really useful. As I've said in earlier mails, it is better to give some suggestions for those who are looking for PPAs to 6.Does not take any default action, nor provide default set of action to users that they don't know what is happening when they choose them. It just do what the user have selected, and before doing so it will warn if the action might be harmful. Though there might be some description and warning messages are still not perfect, but they are easy to be improved and I believe the author is happy to do so when people give reasonable suggestions. -- Regards, Aron Xu
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