150107 William Hubbs wrote: > On Wed, Jan 07, 2015 at 06:49:56AM -0500, Philip Webb wrote: >> 150106 William Hubbs wrote: >>> Many packages have been masked in the tree for months - years >>> with no signs of fixes. I am particularly concerned >>> about packages with known security vulnerabilities >>> staying in the main tree masked. If people want to keep those packages, >>> I don't want to stop them, but packages like this should be in an overlay, >>> not the main tree. >> -- snip -- >> > # Tavis Ormandy <tav...@gentoo.org> (21 Mar 2006) >> > # masked pending unresolved security issues #125902 >> > games-roguelike/nethack >> -- snip -- >> This one is perfectly safe on a single-user system : please leave it there. > I'm not opposed to it staying in the tree under one of these conditions: > 1) fix it and remove the mask or
I'm a user, not a dev or a programmer. > 2) remove the mask and add ewarns to the ebuild That looks more reasonable & something a dev could easily do. -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
