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From: Francesco Riosa <vivo75@×××××.com>
To: gentoo development <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Needs ideas: Upcoming circular dependency: expat <> CMake
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2019 21:45:08
Message-Id: CAD6zcDzJno4jbt9qSzZKEP1euXtGh9c_jhoVz3tiX69ULDzqVw@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Needs ideas: Upcoming circular dependency: expat <> CMake by Sebastian Pipping
1 Il giorno mer 18 dic 2019 alle ore 22:03 Sebastian Pipping <sping@g.o>
2 ha scritto:
3
4 >
5 > CMake bundles a (previously outdated and vulnerable) copy of expat so
6 > I'm not sure if re-activating that bundle — say with a new use flag
7 > "system-expat" — would be a good thing to resort to for breaking the
8 > cycle, with regard to security in particular.
9 >
10 > Pushing gently upstream to upgrade bundled expat copy would (at least
11 temporarily) fix the issue and also benefit other use cases. Maybe they are
12 Gentoo friendly
13 they also release quite often, which would fix the problem soon

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Needs ideas: Upcoming circular dependency: expat <> CMake Rolf Eike Beer <eike@×××××××.de>