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A ) building gcc without spp does not disable spp for other packages. |
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B) spp is a good thing even for single user desktops. |
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C) i hate long answers without useful content. |
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D ) i hate the quoting of my phone. |
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Am 17.06.2014 15:05 schrieb "Frank Peters" <frank.peters@×××××××.net>: |
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> On Tue, 17 Jun 2014 07:11:26 +0000 (UTC) |
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> Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net> wrote: |
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> > If you want to disable the strong-but-not-all default when it |
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> > comes in 4.9, OK, but I'd suggest at least keeping this minimal threshold |
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> > of protection, particularly since it /will/ be the default now and thus |
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> > there should be if anything fewer problems with it than not. |
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> > |
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> The problem with all Linux distributions, and not just Gentoo, is that |
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> they are directed toward a multi-user, networked environment. As a |
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> consequence, they exhibit security and other features that generally |
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> make no sense whatsoever for a single-user desktop machine that optionally |
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> connects externally only with an ISP through a router/modem. |
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> I continually have configuration problems because of the need to |
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> work around the useless (vis-a-vis the single-user desktop) and |
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> myriad requirements of the multi-user, networked scenario. |
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> In the single-user, desktop environment, the probability of a buffer |
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> overflow "attack" is virtually nil, especially if one is highly selective |
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> about "surfing" the Internet and employing Internet software (which |
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> I am). |
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> There needs to be a Linux distribution or sub-distribution that caters |
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> to the needs of the single, desktop user, ensconced as he is within |
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> his private garret and far removed from the troubles of a massive |
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> network. My system is configured in a way that is quite contrary |
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> to recommended Linux practice (for example I run only and always as the |
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> root superuser and have no need for file permissions) but yet it makes |
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> perfect sense for my situation. |
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> Are single desktop users that much of a minority? I would hope not. |
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> Frank Peters |
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