FBSD edonkey-gui-gtk-port

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On Wednesday 17 November 2004 10:10, Peter Pentchev wrote:

Thank you for your answer.
You answered in name of ?

I like to add only to shorts here:

Any responsible person should be interested in anythink what could deal with 
the name of product or services he represent.

The issue is not running as root or any advice about not to do so.

The issue is the word NOOB.

A decent advice as "Please do not run as root" and if you really want to add 
"--as-root" to the command line would be perfectly correct and do not offend 
anybody and states the good education and respect of the responsibles.

H



> On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 07:37:34PM -0200, H Matik wrote:
> > about edonkey-gui-gtk-0.6.2_1
>
> Now, a couple of points here right from the start :)
>
> You seem to have an issue with a port, a part of the FreeBSD Ports
> Collection.  While it is great that you want to report this issue to the
> FreeBSD Project - this is the only way we can actually find out what
> users like and dislike, and the only way we can fix it in the next
> releases - please note that neither the freebsd-doc list nor the Board
> of Directors of the FreeBSD Foundation is a suitable place to complain
> about it.  The best person to contact would have been the
> net/edonkey-gui-gtk port maintainer, Mario Sergio Fujikawa Ferreira
> <lioux at FreeBSD.org>, as you have already done; apart from the
> maintainer, the best, if not to say only, place to report port issues
> should be the freebsd-ports mailing list.  There is absolutely no reason
> for CC'ing the -doc list, and about CC'ing the FreeBSD Foundation BoD -
> well, I dunno what to say :)
>
> Now, about your complaint, see below...
>
> > I could have gotten a realy bad impression about freebsd after
> > installing the edonkey-gui-gtk-0.6.2_1 port.
> >
> > I think it is really not developer's issue WHO runs a programm.
> >
> > So may be it may be usefull to give a security advice but not a
> > stupid message box as yours saying to run with
> >
> >    --noob-wants-to-run-as-root
> >
> > First I thought that FreeBSD's level was real higher and still
> > believe in this and not in such kind of childish flame comments.
> >
> > So please make professional valuable comments but do not offend or
> > humiliate people.
>
> This particular problem - that the GTK interface to edonkey displays a
> message box when you try to run it as root unless you also specify that
> command-line option - is not the "fault" of the FreeBSD port in any way
>
> :)  This is the way the program itself behaves - the ChangeLog in the
>
> source tarball says that this was added back in December 2003.  If the
> author of a program has decided that for any reason, security or
> otherwise, his program should not be run as root, or should be run as
> root only in special circumstances, it is *not* for the FreeBSD port
> maintainer to decide to remove that obstacle.  The point of the FreeBSD
> Ports Collection is to take third-party programs and get them to run on
> FreeBSD, so the users can actually use them; the point is NOT to modify
> the programs, ignoring the intent of their original author.
>
> G'luck,
> Peter
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