Re: using the panel to uninstall packages.

[Miles Lane <miles amazon com>]

Sri Ramkrishna wrote:
> 
> > Turning the Launcher into a one-stop place for running, configuring, and
> > removing an application might be a pretty good idea. Having users
> > accidentally remove a program shouldn't be a major problem for Linux, since
> > users shouldn't have the permissions to do that anyway.
> 
> Of course the "de-install package from system.." menu item would not work
> without the root password.  Potentially this could confuse a new person
> trying to install packages.  Perhaps one should connotate a new name for
> the root password "install password" or something like that.  (or they
> better learn some new phrases. :-)
> 
> Why can't we use some sort of kerberos authentication where one could use
> a token (like in AFS) which will allow you to do such things.  Or maybe
> have a pre-configured sudo that will allow software installation in the
> /usr tree?

Sounds great to me.