Re: [sabayon] Pessulus integration

[Scott Balneaves <sbalneav legalaid mb ca>]

On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 09:25:22AM -0600, Federico Mena Quintero wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 22:40 -0600, Scott Balneaves wrote:
> 
> > It was surprisingly easy.  Less code for us to maintain, less translations for
> > the translators.  Win/Win, I'd say.
> 
> Make it a hard dependency!  As you said, it doesn't make sense to have
> desktop profiles without lockdown.

Yeah, that's the way I was leaning.  I think it only makes sense.  I'll put
some goodies in the configure.ac

> You'll want to notify the release team about the change in dependencies.

Will do.

> May I give you homework?  :)

Absolutely.

> There was a patch to add support for
> locking down OpenOffice.org.  I *think* this patch was committed to the
> copy of Pessulus that was inside Sabayon.  Can you please see if you can
> find that in the git history?  If not, tell me and I'll hunt that patch
> in the openSUSE patches of yore.

I found it last night, and re-opened the bug.  Pessulus has since moved on to
using the ui files as well, so I'll have to re-work the patch with the current
Pessulus.  I'll poke at that tonight.  Vincent, FYI, the bug's
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=320592

> Thanks for giving love to Sabayon.

When I "burst" on to the mailing list, getting close to a year ago, I said that
Sabayon is one of the most important technologies within GNOME currently, and I
mean that.  Things like sexy new messagers, fancy new bling, etc. are nice and
all, but for *real live administrators* in schools and businesses, all the
bling bling don't mean a thing if you can't CONTROL it.  Sabayon and Pessulus
(and, I see we have a new member to the "administration" family: nanny.  We'll
be needing that on Edubuntu) are KEY, VITAL technologies to moving GNOME into
the real world.  Sysadmin tools aren't sexy, and it's always hard to find
people who care about them.  But as a Sysadmin myself in my "day job" for 20
years, tools like Sabayon are right up my ally, and it's been a real pleasure
to help Sabayon along.

And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.

Cheers,
Scott

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