Re: [gentoo-user] OK to disable "filter" USE in php?

[Xavier Parizet]

Grant a écrit :
> I noticed amavisd-new is being pulled in by the "filter" USE flag in
> squirrelmail.  I don't use amavisd-new (I greylist), so I removed
> filter from make.conf and then realized it is also used in the php
> package.  I only use php with squirrelmail.  Is it safe for me to
> remove the filter USE flag from php?  I don't want to make a security
> mistake.

The filter useflag in PHP allow PHP users to filter PHP output to compress it
for example, as euse -i filter shows us:

xavier@xps ~ $ euse -i filter
global use flags (searching: filter)
************************************************************
no matching entries found

local use flags (searching: filter)
************************************************************
[+    ] filter (dev-lang/php):
Add filter extension support

[+    ] filter (mail-client/squirrelmail):
Enable mail-filter/amavisd-new filtering

so filter is not a global useflag, you can disable it if you do not need filter
extension in php, and it is also safe.

HTH.

> - Grant

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