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> > Good points Albert. Is a daily 'emerge --sync && emerge -avDuN world' |
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> > generally enough as far as tracking security vulnerabilities? |
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> > - Grant |
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> That's not really for me to say. But I can tell you that although the |
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> Gentoo developers take matters of security seriously, there is no |
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> full-time security tracker. Sometimes things don't get patched in |
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> portage until someone (else) creates a bug report. And even if that |
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> were not the case, there are 0-day exploits that have yet to be patched. |
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> So it really depends on how informed/paranoid you are about what you |
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> have accepting requests from the Internet. |
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What do you think guys? Simplicity or security? |
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- Grant |
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