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From: Maxim Kammerer <mk@×××.su>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Lastrites: app-misc/secure-delete, app-misc/ccal, www-apache/mod_vhs, app-portage/epm, www-apps/online-bookmarks, sys-apps/i2c
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 20:26:17
Message-Id: CAHsXYDDkj6u1JCd3G2Azpb3iCOpOp8vctFvAi5LoiYZfgchdfQ@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Lastrites: app-misc/secure-delete, app-misc/ccal, www-apache/mod_vhs, app-portage/epm, www-apps/online-bookmarks, sys-apps/i2c by Pacho Ramos
1 On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 9:21 PM, Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o> wrote:
2 > # Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o>
3 > # Dead since 2003, doesn't work with journaling filesystems.
4 > # Also collides with dev-util/smem (#288721). Removal in a month.
5 > app-misc/secure-delete
6
7 Is this a good enough reason for removal? There are no open bugs
8 besides the collision one (easy to solve with a rename?), and issues
9 with journaling filesystems / wear leveling / whatnot are generic
10 problems with secure deletion that can't be solved in userspace
11 anyway.
12
13 --
14 Maxim Kammerer
15 Liberté Linux: http://dee.su/liberte

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