[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread] 

List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    [gentoo-dev] Re: Why is IUSE=hpn  mandatory in openssh ?
From:       Duncan <1i5t5.duncan () cox ! net>
Date:       2014-03-30 23:15:18
Message-ID: pan$28529$5550989b$49e6922b$578bc8d2 () cox ! net
[Download RAW message or body]

hasufell posted on Sat, 29 Mar 2014 22:31:46 +0000 as excerpted:

>> At least an einfo should be added to the package IMO telling the user
>> that HPN is enabled by default.
>> 
>> 
> No, that's not the right approach. There are tools you can use to check
> what flags are enabled. Use 'eix' and 'equery' for example.

... Or even the gentoo-recommended emerge --pretend or emerge -ask and 
actually examining the output to ensure it's doing what you intend, 
before actually going ahead.

Gentoo has never pretended to be a hand-holding distribution (tho it 
seems to be getting rather more so these days); gentooers ignoring that 
recommendation... get to keep the pieces. =:^)

If a gentooer didn't care enough to bother following long established 
best-practice recommendations and thus end up with what might be an 
insecure ssh despite the tools and recommendations available to help them 
make an appropriate choice, that's their problem, not gentoo's.  If they 
can't be bothered to care, there's other distributions around to do that 
baby-sitting for them.  (Of course, whether such distributions are 
themselves simply acting in accord with the wishes of NSA nannies is an 
entirely different question... at least gentoo generally exposes that 
sort of choice to the user... as it is in fact doing here, as well.)

-- 
Duncan - List replies preferred.   No HTML msgs.
"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master --
and if you use the program, he is your master."  Richard Stallman


[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread]