Il 28/12/21 04:28, Kevin Kofler via devel ha scritto:
Matthew Miller wrote:
> 1. There is a mechanism for users to add their own digest lists, if they
> want. The change proposal could be a little more clear on how this
> would work.
There is no way I am going to jump through hoops to whitelist software I
compiled myself, or installed from a third-party repository, out of a
hardware-enforced vendor lock-in that attempts to deny me Freedom Zero
(contradicting the "Freedom" in the "Four F's" of Fedora).
> 2. The proposal calls for a checkbox in Anaconda to enable the feature.
> (We probably do not actually want a checkbox in Anaconda, though.) It
> also says "The feature might be enabled later by the user without any
> change required for the image generation" — which I think is primarily
> saying that the feature could be turned on without needing to remake
> the boot image, but which also seems to also say that it's not
> necessarily on by default.
Hopefully really only *by the user* and not, e.g., by the upgrade to a newer
Fedora release.
But even off by default, I do not see how the "feature" implemented by this
Change provides any value at all that does not contradict the very
definition of Free Software.
Kevin Kofler
I do not see how this change goes against the definition of Free
Software. It doesn't deny a user to install any software they want, it
is about preventing unwanted/unsolicited/malevolent software from being
installed without user (admin) approval.
From a workstation/desktop user perspective, this change sounds not
really interesting, at least until there will be some robust integration
with UI installers. And I personally appreciate it will be introduced as
opt-in.
But from an IT perspective running a server, I think it sounds good (I'm
not IT manager myself). And since Fedora is RHEL playground...
Mattia