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From: Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Build dependencies and upgrades.
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 05:29:23
Message-Id: 4E952572.2000802@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Build dependencies and upgrades. by Zac Medico
1 On 10/12/2011 12:54 AM, Zac Medico wrote:
2 > On 10/11/2011 12:56 PM, Michał Górny wrote:
3 >> Or go with a saner defaults...
4 >
5 > So, are any of the following sane?
6 >
7 > 1) Pull in updates for packages even though those packages won't be used
8 > for anything.
9 >
10
11 Francisco raised a possibly valid point in his original message: though
12 packages may not be currently used for anything, but they could contain
13 un-patched security flaws.
14
15 This seems pretty unlikely to me given the sorts of packages that are
16 build-time-only deps, but it could be possible.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Build dependencies and upgrades. Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>