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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Cutting down on non-cascaded profiles
Date: Tue, 03 May 2005 12:26:12
Message-Id: 200505030827.57817.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Cutting down on non-cascaded profiles by Stuart Longland
1 On Tuesday 03 May 2005 03:05 am, Stuart Longland wrote:
2 > Jan Kundrát wrote:
3 > > Stuart Longland wrote:
4 > >>Anyway, wouldn't security updates include the core system, rather than
5 > >>just things like Apache?
6 > >
7 > > Security updates are updates which are fixing *security* problems.
8 > > Upgrading glibc is not a security update, IMHO :-).
9 >
10 > Yep... 100% agree... but {g,µC,diet,bsd,whatever}libc is not immune to
11 > security issues. :-)
12
13 and to prove the point we have a few GLSA's for glibc
14 -mike
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