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From: Alex Xu <alex_y_xu@×××××.ca>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] status of security improvments (GLEPs 57-61)
Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2013 14:32:53
Message-Id: 52010907.7000008@yahoo.ca
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] status of security improvments (GLEPs 57-61) by hasufell
1 On 06/08/13 10:02 AM, hasufell wrote:
2 > It seems none of them (except the overview GLEP 57) are implemented yet,
3 > although they are roughly 6-8 years old.
4 >
5 > What is holding it back? Is it just that we don't have a PM
6 > implementation yet or is it some political nonsense and PMS blocking
7 > progress again?
8 >
9 > I am not criticizing the portage team in any way here. I just want to
10 > push for some attention.
11 >
12 >
13 > --
14 > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0057.html
15 > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0058.html
16 > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0059.html
17 > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0060.html
18 > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0061.html
19 > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64258
20 > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.portage.devel/2709
21 >
22
23 AFAIK, the status is "unimplemented, and nobody's working on it".
24
25 I believe that the reason is simply that nobody has done the work yet,
26 not due to bikeshedding.
27
28 I agree that these should be implemented at a rate faster than the
29 current one (i.e. not at all).
30
31 (FYI, you spelled "improvements" wrong. ;)

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Re: [gentoo-dev] status of security improvments (GLEPs 57-61) "Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@g.o>