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From: Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Hardened & skype & gcc-4*
Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2007 23:03:47
Message-Id: 49bf44f10712041458x73124ccdtab4edc9446311d05@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Hardened & skype & gcc-4* by Michal 'vorner' Vaner
1 > > I'm actually able to emerge it, but it won't start with:
2 > >
3 > > $ skype
4 > > /usr/bin/skype: line 10: /opt/skype/skype: No such file or directory
5 > > /usr/bin/skype: line 10: /opt/skype/skype: Success
6 > >
7 > > even though /usr/bin/skype and /opt/skype/skype clearly exist. What
8 > > you're saying makes sense about gcc-4* not being necessary, but then
9 > > why the above-referenced bug?
10 >
11 > Take the statically linked version? And, no, I do not know about that
12 > bug, I'm lucky enough not to have Skype installed any more.
13 >
14 > > > BTW: IMO skype should not be allowed near a computer that needs to be
15 > > > "hardened" -- personally, I do not trust it a bit (and I know a little
16 > > > about the quality how it is written, and it talks by network).
17 > >
18 > > What would you recommend as an alternative? From what I understand, I
19 > > could sign up with a voip service and install a client. Would you
20 > > recommend any in particular, both service and client?
21 >
22 > If you need it user-friendly, then maybe wengo, or ekiga. AFAIK both
23 > work over the SIP protocol, so you can replace the client with whatever
24 > else comes to your path and speaks it.
25
26 I can't believe it but I get the same error with wengo:
27
28 $ wengophone
29 /opt/bin/wengophone: line 10: /opt/wengophone/qtwengophone: No such
30 file or directory
31 /opt/bin/wengophone: line 10: /opt/wengophone/qtwengophone: Success
32
33 Maybe a hardened profile on a laptop is more trouble than it's worth.
34 skype, wengo, firefox-bin all won't work with this same type of error.
35 vmware won't work either and I bet it's the same problem.
36
37 - Grant
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Re: [gentoo-user] Hardened & skype & gcc-4* Michal 'vorner' Vaner <vorner@×××.cz>