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On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 08:52:57PM +0000, Jan Krueger wrote: |
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> On Sunday 07 September 2003 18:03, Marius Mauch wrote: |
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> > Please quote the whole sentence, the intention AFAICT is that portage is |
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> > a flexible package manager, not necessarily the most secure one. Your |
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> > part quoting makes it look like it indicates that portage is a very |
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> > secure software (which it isn't right now). |
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> Ok, here the whole sentence: |
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> "Thanks to a technology called Portage, Gentoo Linux can become an ideal |
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> secure server, development workstation, professional desktop, gaming system, |
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> embedded solution or something else -- whatever you need it to be." |
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> Please (the one responsible for it) clearify the statement because its wrong |
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> where i indicated in my previous mails and here: |
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> Its not "thanks to [...] portage" that "gentoo Linux can become an ideal |
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> secure server". |
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The idea is that Portage gives you the flexibility to build a system |
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usable in any environment. You're reading it as "Portage makes your |
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system inherently secure" - in other words, you're misreading or |
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misinterpreting. |
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Jon Portnoy |
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