also sprach Phillip Hofmeister <plhofmei@antiochcomputerconsulting.com> [2004.06.26.1531 +0200]: > As strange as it may seem, some people may not. Weird souls... > By following your suggestion we would be forcing this behavior on > them. People use Debian (partially) because they like the wide > range of control it offers them. If you take away some of that > control then it diminishes the reason why some ppl prefer Debian. I guess. But shouldn't the installer then also ask whether it should install Debian normally, or provide services like rexec, finger, and others by default? I mean, after all, some users may *want* to run an insecure system... Note that I am not trying to undermine or criticise or change the Debian security policy. I just want to understand it. -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .''`. martin f. krafft <madduck@debian.org> : :' : proud Debian developer, admin, and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system Invalid/expired PGP subkeys? Use subkeys.pgp.net as keyserver!
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