On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 12:53 PM, Ketil Malde <ke...@malde.org> wrote:
> > Ertugrul Söylemez <e...@ertes.de> writes: > > > And that may even be more harmful, because an insecure system with a > > false sense of security is worse than an insecure system alone. > > Yes. As is clear to all, the current low level of security means that > nobody are _actually_ downloading stuff of Hackage, thank God. Hackage > just exists for...well, I forget, but certainly not to distribute > software. Right. > > Sarcasm aside, to some extent, this is true. I used to have a cron job > 'cabal install'ing my packages off Hackage to ensure that they would > compile with the current offering of their dependencies. But I decided > it was way too risky, and don't do it anymore. > > > Let's do it properly. > > You mean like how it was decisively dealt with when this was discussed > in 2008? > > https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues/207 > > Or maybe more the way it was firmly handled when it was brought up again > in 2010? > > http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2010-December/087050.html > > This looks increasingly like that time of year when the problem is > pointed out, the crypto geeks get together to construct the Optimal > Solution, and then everybody lose interest and move on to greener > pastures for a while. Well, I don't think the perfect solution exists, > and even if > it could be identified, it might not be implemented, and even if > were implemented, it might not be used. > > Hehe.. hard to argue against history! :-) Alexander > We've just been incredibly lucky that nothing really bad has happened so > far. Let's hope it lasts. > > -k > -- > If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe >
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