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I'd be interested in hearing about the conversation of the installer. Manager: Why does the installer require so much interaction with the user? Dev: That's part of the OS protection efforts. Manager: Can we make it require less interaction? Dev: Not without hacking together our own too that once installed will allow the computer to run any script with root privileges. That's a bad idea. Manager: If it means the user doesn't have to do anything, then do it. Dev: But it is a bad bad bad thing. Manager: meh

Or was it closer to Manager: Can't we do something. Dev: Sure (with an evil grin), we can do something Manager: Great!!



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