Re: *countable infinities only

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On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 12:40 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 02, 2012 at 12:18:17PM -0400, Orcan Ogetbil wrote:
>
>> Hmm, will the package maintainers have the freedom to not support
>> users who have the secureboot enabled? How are we going to detect
>> this?
>
> Any piece of userspace can read the SecureBoot and SetupMode variables
> and check that they're 1 and 0 respectively. But refusing to run in that
> scenario would provide no extra security, so the only reason to do so
> would be to warn the user that kernel functionality the application
> depends on may not be available.
>
> But if you mean "I philosophically object to secure boot and want to
> prevent my packages from working on systems with it enabled" then yes,
> that's clearly a thing you could do. I don't think it's worth discussing
> whether it's something that you should do or something that would be
> treated as a bug unless someone actually wants to do it.
>

As a package maintainer and contributor, since I am not a worker with
defined duties, I am free to draw my own circle of responsibility. Yes
it was rather a freedom (i.e. "could") question rather than a "should"
question.

Thank you for the clarification.

Orcan
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