On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 01:07:28 +0100 Alexander Mieland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wednesday 19 January 2005 00:51, Marius Mauch wrote: > > On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 00:35:53 +0100 > > > > Alexander Mieland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Well, this *could* be one solution, but this *is* not a desirable > > > solution for me. > > > As I've said, there is absolutley no sense to restrict the access > > > on /var/log/emerge.log in that hard way. > > > It must be possible to build an application which can read the > > > emerge.log without to be root or in the portage group. > > > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35237 > > Seems that other people have different opinions on that. > > It might be that other people has different opinions on that. But I > think, it is not needed to restrict the access on /var/log/emerge.log > in that way. > > There are absolutly no secure or unsafe information in the emerge.log. [snip] Well, take it up with the persons who requested that change. Personally I don't care either way, but right now zhen and vapier have a higher reputation. Marius -- Public Key at http://www.genone.de/info/gpg-key.pub In the beginning, there was nothing. And God said, 'Let there be Light.' And there was still nothing, but you could see a bit better.
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