Gentoo Archives: gentoo-alt

From: Jeremy Olexa <darkside@g.o>
To: Gentoo alt <gentoo-alt@l.g.o>
Subject: [gentoo-alt] packages that run as root
Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2010 20:28:46
Message-Id: b1a54463df919dfef50ebb46e388e313@localhost
1 Hi,
2 Current situation is to mask packages that run as root. I'm seriously
3 considering to lift this restriction because:
4
5 1) We aren't very good at keeping this list up2date.
6 2) It poses artificial restrictions for some users and doens't harm the
7 other users.
8 3) Why bother to mask them?
9
10 Anyone disagree?
11 -Jeremy

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-alt] packages that run as root Peter Abrahamsen <rainhead@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-alt] packages that run as root Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-alt] packages that run as root Ramon van Alteren <ramon@××××××××××.nl>
Re: [gentoo-alt] packages that run as root mattmatteh@×××××.com
Re: [gentoo-alt] packages that run as root Benda Xu <heroxbd@×××××.com>