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On Wednesday 06 July 2005 20:10, Radoslaw Stachowiak wrote: |
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> Why only web-based apps? What about other tools and apps exposed to the |
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> network? |
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Webapps are simpler to install to base users, they are generally just a |
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"extract, change perms, execute php stuff". |
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Other stuff is quite more difficult, and sometime you don't have new security |
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bugs while upstream is away or dead. If all the "upstream away for more than |
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3 months" or "upstream dead, package works like a charm" will be removed in a |
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couple of months from portage, users will start complaining. |
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And I cannot say I would disagrees with them. |
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Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò |
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Gentoo Developer - http://dev.gentoo.org/~flameeyes/ |
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(Gentoo/FreeBSD, Video, Gentoo/AMD64, Sound, PAM) |
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