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| From: | Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-dev@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-dev] Vanilla sources | ||
| Date: | Sun, 05 Jan 2020 16:41:30 | ||
| Message-Id: | 817a5462-9ed9-838a-f6bd-f715d790768f@gentoo.org | ||
| In Reply to: | Re: [gentoo-dev] Vanilla sources by Rolf Eike Beer |
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| 1 | On 1/4/20 2:13 PM, Rolf Eike Beer wrote: |
| 2 | > |
| 3 | > Bad idea. If you wonder why: eshowkw dev-lang/rust. |
| 4 | > |
| 5 | |
| 6 | Or consider that every rust package in Gentoo bundles hundreds of |
| 7 | libraries. We'd be fixing one security issue by introducing 10x more. |
| 8 | |
| 9 | Not that rewriting it in rust would fix anything; writing it in C is |
| 10 | only a solution insofar as it makes the window to exploit the race |
| 11 | condition is as small as possible. |