From: | Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o> | ||
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To: | gentoo-dev@l.g.o | ||
Subject: | Re: [gentoo-dev] Vanilla sources | ||
Date: | Sun, 05 Jan 2020 16:41:30 | ||
Message-Id: | 817a5462-9ed9-838a-f6bd-f715d790768f@gentoo.org | ||
In Reply to: | Re: [gentoo-dev] Vanilla sources by Rolf Eike Beer |
1 | On 1/4/20 2:13 PM, Rolf Eike Beer wrote: |
2 | > |
3 | > Bad idea. If you wonder why: eshowkw dev-lang/rust. |
4 | > |
5 | |
6 | Or consider that every rust package in Gentoo bundles hundreds of |
7 | libraries. We'd be fixing one security issue by introducing 10x more. |
8 | |
9 | Not that rewriting it in rust would fix anything; writing it in C is |
10 | only a solution insofar as it makes the window to exploit the race |
11 | condition is as small as possible. |