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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Making the developer community more open
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 00:17:15
Message-Id: 20060321001218.1fa44fb9@snowdrop.home
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Making the developer community more open by Stefan Schweizer
1 On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 00:58:07 +0100 "Stefan Schweizer"
2 <genstef@g.o> wrote:
3 | It doe snot need to be the portage-tree .. but an official
4 | user-overlay or contrib-overlay would definitely help to get a lot of
5 | people involved.
6
7 The problem is security. It's extremely easy to sneak some very devious
8 code (e.g. that'd grant remote root access and post an IP somewhere)
9 into an ebuild that'd be very hard to spot by anyone who doesn't
10 reallllly know what they're doing.
11
12 --
13 Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Wearer of the shiny hat)
14 Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org
15 Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm

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