Bug#804793: closed by Markus Koschany <apo at gambaru.de> (Re: Bug#804793: games-minesweeper: Please do not recommend 'aptitude' as minesweeper game)

[Markus Koschany]

Am 11.11.2015 um 20:48 schrieb Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo:
[...]
> It can easily happen that I am the admin of somebody else's system (my
> daughter / sister / friend), install aptitude, and that they have the
> root password just in case.
> 
> True, it is unlikely that there is any breakage because of this, but
> anybody launching aptitude just to play minesweeper and enjoying it,
> instead of any other programs available, it is much more unlikely (in
> my opinion).

You are always fully responsible for your computer system and you can
never blame any package for suggesting another package. Sorry but this
is a very construed scenario. If you think that one of your family
members is unable to control aptitude, it might be advisable to revoke
their root privileges. The tool is perfectly safe otherwise.


> Anyway, the minesweeper in aptitude might be more short lived that
> what you think, at which point the dependencies of the package will be
> incorrect.

Should this ever happen, please feel free to file another bug report.
Obviously without the minesweeper game there would be no reason to
mention aptitude at all. That would be a valid bug report indeed.

Cheers,

Markus



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