Fedora 12 and unprivileged package installation [LWN.net]

Fedora 12 and unprivileged package installation

Posted Nov 21, 2009 12:16 UTC (Sat) by tzafrir (subscriber, #11501)
In reply to: Fedora 12 and unprivileged package installation by NAR
Parent article: Fedora 12 and unprivileged package installation

Which brings up another such "exceptional" condition: adding an extra repository.

Is the typical Fedora "desktop" installation useful enough without adding such an extra repository?

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Fedora 12 and unprivileged package installation

Posted Nov 22, 2009 12:19 UTC (Sun) by NAR (subscriber, #1313) [Link] (1 responses)

Last time I've checked it wasn't useful. By the way, why does a desktop "single-user" installation has a root password at all? The recent IPhone worm showed how "useful" it is to have...

Fedora 12 and unprivileged package installation

Posted Nov 25, 2009 20:37 UTC (Wed) by Baylink (guest, #755) [Link]

Well, if one lives in one's parents' basement, then people walking up to the machine is probably a lesser concern, yes. :-)