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Hi Jeremy, |
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I strongly agree with you arguments. And there is some situation that user |
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have root access and also need a Gentoo Prefix. e. g. setting up a ftp |
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server using packages from Prefix on MacOSX. (rephrasing your idea 2) |
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The Prefix users are generally highly evolved. Therefore developper do not |
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need to decide for the users which packages should/not be installed. (well |
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rephrasing your idea 2) |
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lifting this restriction will also save developpers' time. (well rephrasing |
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your idea 1, 3) |
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Cheers! |
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Benda |
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On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 5:28 AM, Jeremy Olexa <darkside@g.o> wrote: |
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> Current situation is to mask packages that run as root. I'm seriously |
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> considering to lift this restriction because: |
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> 1) We aren't very good at keeping this list up2date. |
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> 2) It poses artificial restrictions for some users and doens't harm the |
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> other users. |
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> 3) Why bother to mask them? |
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