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Abhay Kedia wrote: |
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> On Wednesday 13 Jun 2007 10:11:24 pm Vlastimil Babka wrote: |
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>> Drop it from stable completely, possibly package.mask or move to |
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>> overlay. Why should this closed-source rootkit be in stable? |
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> If closed source is the criteria of getting dropped from stable status or |
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> tree, than are we dropping netscape-flash, vmware and NVIDIA etc. as well? |
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NO NO NO. |
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The criteria are: |
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- if you cannot fix it |
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- if you cannot workaround it |
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mask it till you can do something. |
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being closed source reduces the possibility to workaround the problems |
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not to mention fix them properly. |
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lu - cinelerra is opensource, but quite hard to handle, guess what |
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happened... |
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Luca Barbato |
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Gentoo/linux Gentoo/PPC |
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http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero |
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