Abhay Kedia wrote: > On Wednesday 13 Jun 2007 10:11:24 pm Vlastimil Babka wrote: >> Drop it from stable completely, possibly package.mask or move to >> overlay. Why should this closed-source rootkit be in stable? >> > If closed source is the criteria of getting dropped from stable status or > tree, than are we dropping netscape-flash, vmware and NVIDIA etc. as well? > NO NO NO.
The criteria are: - if you cannot fix it - if you cannot workaround it mask it till you can do something. being closed source reduces the possibility to workaround the problems not to mention fix them properly. lu - cinelerra is opensource, but quite hard to handle, guess what happened... -- Luca Barbato Gentoo/linux Gentoo/PPC http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
