Re: [gentoo-dev] Why masks are being used for security issues instead of GLSA?

On 9/25/14 6:03 AM, Alex Xu wrote:
> 1. one of your examples is clearly wrong, mariadb has no masked
> versions in the tree.
>
> 2. since you claim to have read package.mask, [...] if you bothered
> to read a single one of them, they will have said that there is a
> GLSA in progress or that stabilization is still in progress.
>
> 3. if you want to use old-ass packages from the age of bourne shell,
> use debian, not gentoo.

While technically you have a point, I'd discourage replies that may feel
almost like an attack on the original poster. Please help keep
gentoo-dev friendly for everyone, as far as possible.

Thanks
Paweł