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From: Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Revisions for USE flag changes
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2017 10:08:58
Message-Id: 2fcd62d4-cfa4-9ce9-af81-3d3382b41c41@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: Revisions for USE flag changes by Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>
1 On 08/12/2017 10:32 PM, Duncan wrote:
2 >>
3 >> What if you fix a runtime issue by dropping a flag? It's more confusing
4 >> than it has to be: the USE flag exception interacts weirdly with all the
5 >> other rules.
6 >
7 > Bad example as it's a security vuln, which requires masking/removing
8 > vulnerable versions
9
10 Ok, change "security vulnerability" to "erases the root partition."