We extract a tarball and make everything read-only. Sometimes an item in the distribution gets re-made. This can fail because of permissions. So, on platforms where this would happen, we'd like to remove the file first. I wasn't advocating to remove them from the distro, I understand we need to be kind to our crippled (cough vms:) brethren.
Is this more clear? -- Principal Security Engineer Akamai Technology Cambridge, MA ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List openssl-dev@openssl.org Automated List Manager majord...@openssl.org
