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

[Grant]

>> 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.

Thanks Xavier.  I couldn't remember why I enabled it in the first
place, and I thought it could have been to secure PHP.  I only use PHP
with squirrelmail though, so it sounds like it's alright.

- Grant