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OK kids, settle down for a second and listen to your uncle Seemant. |
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First, enough with the insults being hurled around! We don't need |
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people being called slackers and dumb and stupid and whatever other |
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creative labels are being developed. That is absolutely and without a |
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doubt: non-productive. The better alternative might be to approach |
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people with a modicum of respect (swallow the bile). |
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Second, there's an obvious point of frustration here. The arch teams |
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due to being understaffed have a different set of priorities from the |
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security team and a different set of priorities from the maintainers. |
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And this is the correct way for these things to be. |
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Third, the best proposal I've seen here is for developers to get shell |
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accounts on alternate architectures. There's quite a few of them |
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floating around, and I'm pretty sure the arch teams will help you get a |
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shell on one of the boxes somewhere. Some of the arches even have shell |
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boxes for that purpose sitting at OSU or something. This would work for |
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at least the console applications (the visual stuff will be a little |
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trickier). |
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So, that said, I'm going to have to go with the standard advice that |
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Gentoo developers give Gentoo users: if you see a problem, help fix it! |
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Alternatively, there might be reason to have an einsecure() call in |
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pkg_setup() or something for deprecated versions. |
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But let me say again: stop acting disrespectfully of each other, or I'm |
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going to turn this car around and drive us back home, I'm not kidding! |
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And give me some of that popcorn. |
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Seemant Kulleen |
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Developer, Gentoo Linux |
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