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On 4/23/20 4:45 AM, lego12...@yandex.ru wrote: > On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 03:24:07PM -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote: >> FWIW, I do know there are situations where static linking is the right >> thing to do. > > If you project require strong security, than it would be simpler to use > static

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On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 06:30:25PM +0200, inasprecali wrote: > There is no rational reason for the core of Portage to be written in > C. There are more than one rational reasons to do so. -- Олег Неманов (Oleg Nemanov)

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lego12...@yandex.ru wrote: > On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 03:19:26PM -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > >> If you only sync once a day, then yes, you'll only have to rebuild once >> a day. I sync considerably more than that though, and besides, it takes >> me about a week to emerge -e @world. > Just

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On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 11:52:52AM +0300, lego12...@yandex.ru wrote: > Nobody talk about "everything is statically linked". > However, this is a good idea ;-), but this is a topic for another > conversation :-). No wonder Yandex considers you SPAM.

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On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 03:19:26PM -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > It's not that everything depends on OpenSSL, but that everything depends > on /something/. If everything is statically linked, then any update of > any package sets off a chain reaction of other packages that trigger > rebuilds of

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On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 03:24:07PM -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > FWIW, I do know there are situations where static linking is the right > thing to do. If you project require strong security, than it would be simpler to use static linking. If you have many instances of the same program or have

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On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 02:22:02PM -0500, Michael Jones wrote: > But I don't generally want my entire system statically linked, only a few > things. But who said that *entire* system should be statically linked? The conversation is so far only about such a critical thing as portage. -- Олег

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On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 02:33:45PM -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > If you statically link more than a few things, this is emerge -e @world > twenty times a day. Hm :-D. And why it should be so? I run emerge one time in a week. If there are any changes in a dependancy of some package, why it

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On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 02:19:19PM -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > How do you plan to update all of your programs when there's a security > vulnerability in, say, OpenSSL? Hm. And why we need every package to be statically linked? I told just that static linking is a good and useful feature.

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On 4/22/20 3:22 PM, Michael Jones wrote: > > But I don't generally want my entire system statically linked, only a > few things. > FWIW, I do know there are situations where static linking is the right thing to do.

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On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 2:19 PM Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 4/22/20 3:15 PM, Michael Jones wrote: > > > > Why would I need to emerge world? Portage knows the full list of > > packages that depend on openssl, transitively. > > > > Unless you're generalizing to say that (almost) everything

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On 4/22/20 3:15 PM, Michael Jones wrote: > > Why would I need to emerge world? Portage knows the full list of > packages that depend on openssl, transitively. > > Unless you're generalizing to say that (almost) everything depends on > openssl, I suppose. > > Also, didn't the handbook, at one

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On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 1:33 PM Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 4/22/20 2:24 PM, Michael Jones wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 1:19 PM Michael Orlitzky > > wrote: > > > > How do you plan to update all of your programs when there's a > security > >

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On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 02:38:40PM -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > Rust packages get no security updates. Neither do Go packages. That's > what I'm screaming about in those threads on gentoo-dev that you singled > out in your original post =) Oh... I was under the impression that $EGO_SUMS

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On 4/22/20 2:24 PM, Consus wrote: > On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 02:19:19PM -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote: >> How do you plan to update all of your programs when there's a security >> vulnerability in, say, OpenSSL? > > emerge -1 @world of course :D > > By the way, Rust does support dynamic linking

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On 4/22/20 2:24 PM, Michael Jones wrote: > > > On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 1:19 PM Michael Orlitzky > wrote: > > How do you plan to update all of your programs when there's a security > vulnerability in, say, OpenSSL? > > > Is there some reason why all packages

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On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 02:19:19PM -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > How do you plan to update all of your programs when there's a security > vulnerability in, say, OpenSSL? emerge -1 @world of course :D By the way, Rust does support dynamic linking (to a degree), but does not have (yet, I pray)

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On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 1:19 PM Michael Orlitzky wrote: > How do you plan to update all of your programs when there's a security > vulnerability in, say, OpenSSL? > Is there some reason why all packages that depend on OpenSSL, transitively, could not be recompiled?

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On 4/22/20 2:08 PM, lego12...@yandex.ru wrote: > On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 07:48:01PM +0200, Alessandro Barbieri wrote: >> Whatever, but QA is by my side and I'm helping removing static libraries >> from gentoo packages. > > Man, this is not a technical argument. Sorry :-). You are wrong from a >

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On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 07:48:01PM +0200, Alessandro Barbieri wrote: > Whatever, but QA is by my side and I'm helping removing static libraries > from gentoo packages. Man, this is not a technical argument. Sorry :-). You are wrong from a technical point of view. And the fact above says just: -

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On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 11:47 AM wrote: > C is more widespread, than C++. > Yes, this is true. > C++ is unneededly complex and for such core thing like a portage > C would be better. C code is simpler and robust. More people know it. > More people can send patches. Etc. > I disagree to the

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On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 11:32:49AM -0500, Michael Jones wrote: > On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 11:30 AM wrote: > > No-no. C++ is a nightmare. A few people want to use it. > > C++ is an extremely widespread language with millions of lines of code > written daily world wide. C is more widespread,