Gentoo Archives: gentoo-alt

From: Peter Abrahamsen <rainhead@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-alt@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-alt] packages that run as root
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2010 00:32:53
Message-Id: AANLkTilynu2sgOL9VU2Hb5cnVNKJre8HdmOQSMYr2XiX@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-alt] packages that run as root by Jeremy Olexa
1 Sound reasoning as far as I'm concerned.
2
3 Peter
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5 On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 1:28 PM, Jeremy Olexa <darkside@g.o> wrote:
6 > Hi,
7 > Current situation is to mask packages that run as root. I'm seriously
8 > considering to lift this restriction because:
9 >
10 > 1) We aren't very good at keeping this list up2date.
11 > 2) It poses artificial restrictions for some users and doens't harm the
12 > other users.
13 > 3) Why bother to mask them?
14 >
15 > Anyone disagree?
16 > -Jeremy
17 >
18 >