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OK, I've not seen this dealt with on any of the Gentoo groups/lists I'm |
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in since at least early 2004, there's nothing I can find about it on |
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bugs, and for some reason my package.provided entry quit working, |
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bringing the question back to the front burner. |
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Why is openssh (as virtual/ssh) part of the desktop profiles? |
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Sure, some folks will have more than one machine, or ssh in to work or |
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something, but they can emerge it, just like anyone else does. Those |
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with only a single machine, who only access it locally, and who have no |
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reason to ssh into any other machines, should have no need of it. |
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In fact, despite the fact that I've been running Gentoo since early 2004, |
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I've /never/ had ssh on the system, AFAIK. It has always been injected |
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or in package.provided, since I never could see a reason to have it on my |
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system, and as we all know, an unneeded and unused app on the system is a |
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security vulnerability waiting to happen. Not only that, but on Gentoo, |
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there's a significantly higher than normal maintenance burden, give our |
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compile from sources general policy. Since I've not needed it in all |
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/that/ time, it should indeed be safe to remove from the system list and |
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made a dependency for anything that /does/ need it. |
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Anyway, I think at least a discussion might be worthwhile, and I decided |
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to bring it up here to see what desktop folks thought, before bothering |
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the entire dev list with the idea. If it gets shot down here, then no |
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need to bring it up there. I keep thinking that /someone/ must have |
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asked the question before, but I haven't seen it in three years now, so |
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it can't be /too/ much of a FAQ. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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