Subject: Re: dependencies & security vulnerabilities
To: Johnny C. Lam <jlam@NetBSD.org>
From: Hubert Feyrer <hubert@feyrer.de>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 07/31/2005 05:13:49
On Sat, 30 Jul 2005, Johnny C. Lam wrote:
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> | Proposal -- Nuke any RECOMMENDED used for security issues |
> | |
> | I propose we just completely nuke all dependencies that are |
> | a result of "security vulnerability" issues and focus solely |
> | on ABI issues. This means getting rid of most of the |
> | BUILDLINK_RECOMMENDED.* and RECOMMENDED settings in pkgsrc. |
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>
> Comments?
Seconded.
I never was a friend of those gracious bumps (but obviously not everyone
cared :-).
- Hubert