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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Cdrtools installation without suid root
Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2013 06:07:33
Message-Id: klfpu2$si0$1@ger.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Cdrtools installation without suid root by Joerg Schilling
1 On 26/04/13 23:20, Joerg Schilling wrote:
2 >
3 > The only problem I see is that you are able to remove important software on a
4 > Linux installation while the kernel still supports the feature by default.
5
6 You are not able to remove it if something actually uses it. If you
7 remove the automagic dependency in cdrtools, you'll be giving the
8 package manager the chance to do the right thing.
9
10 Automagic deps are a bad thing:
11
12 http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/automagic.xml

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Cdrtools installation without suid root Daniel Pielmeier <billie@g.o>