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On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 7:57 AM, William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Wed, Jan 07, 2015 at 06:49:56AM -0500, Philip Webb wrote: |
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>> 150106 William Hubbs wrote: |
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>> This one is perfectly safe on a single-user system : please leave it there. |
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> I'm not opposed to it staying in the tree under one of these conditions: |
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> 1) fix it and remove the mask |
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> or |
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> 2) remove the mask and add ewarns to the ebuild |
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Remove the mask that people have to see and actively disable in order |
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to install the software and replace it with ewarn messages that they |
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likely won't read? |
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I don't see the problem with versions with security vulnerabilities |
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masked in the tree. nethack in particular has been masked in the tree |
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since 2006, so we have some precedence. |
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