--- Jef Spaleta <jspaleta@princeton.edu> wrote: > Either lock down the gui package installer, so its > smart enough to know > what is and is not a redhat package, and will > prevent you from > installing 3rd party packages (without some coaxing > atleast, i shouldnt > just be able to right click in nautilus and install > an rpm from a random > location, if package security is really something > Redhat wants to make > an issue that up2date is there to solve). > > Or have the Remove/Install package view be smart > enough to know what > isn't a redhat package (okay well not in the > redhat-rpmdb maybe) so that > all the oddball packages users have installed with > r-c-packages are > atleast listed somewhere (like an new "OddBall > Package" catagory) > I vote for the latter. I would really like to see the gui package installer have the ability to show *all* installed rpms and the ability to uninstall *any* installed rpm (ok, except for maybe base rpms). Sort of like good ol' gnomerpm or kpackage... __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more http://taxes.yahoo.com/ -- Phoebe-list mailing list Phoebe-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/phoebe-list
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