On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 06:00:36AM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 09:40:20PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote:
> >
> > I would go so far as to propose patching it out of Okular entirely.
> > Debian should not be a tool to support software restrictions like this.
> >
> If Debian should not be a tool to support software restrictions like
> this, then against which package should I file a bug to have all unix
> user/group permissions ignored?
Allow me to use your analogy[1] to look at an example of a behaviour
that I consider sane:
$ echo ciao > /tmp/foo
$ chmod -w /tmp/foo
$ vim /tmp/foo
:w -> E45: 'readonly' option is set (add ! to override)
:w! -> "/tmp/foo" 2L, 11C written
This hints at the idea that those permissions that the user can change
are to be considered advisory, and those that the user cannot change are
to be considered mandatory.
We have also long come to the conclusion that enforcing laws (be they
questionable or not) is something that is the responsibility of the
users (or their sysadmins), and not of software alone.
Ciao,
Enrico
[1] which I however don't consider a justification for okular's current
behaviour
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