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#19
Originally Posted by VDVsx View Post
IIRC this discussion was very brief and there was no consensus at that time, one of the arguments were that some daemons can be activated from the command line, or can receive commands, so in order to simplify and don't create more rules we reach this decision.
Feel free to reopen the discussion or write more clear rules that clearly separate daemon/enablers from pure CLI apps.
Consider the discussion reopened ;-)

Clear rules:
  • An application MUST use the standard CLI icon, or the standard CLI badge over an alternative icon, if the user must use X Terminal to start the main purpose of the application.
  • Packages which auto-start in a secure manner, or enable alternative functionality in other applications, SHOULD NOT use the CLI icon, as interaction with them through the CLI is not required.
  • Any daemon which auto-starts MUST NOT provide a trivial attack vector, and so SHOULD (for example) prompt for a password during installation.
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