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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] repo/gentoo:master commit in: media-libs/x265/
From:       Alexis Ballier <aballier () gentoo ! org>
Date:       2020-05-27 16:13:18
Message-ID: 20200527181318.01e0112f () gentoo ! org
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On Tue, 26 May 2020 23:41:28 +0200
zorry@gentoo.org wrote:

> tisdag 26 maj 2020 kl. 19:54:51 CEST skrev  Alexis Ballier:
> > On Tue, 26 May 2020 10:45:39 -0400
> > 
> > Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > > > Note that having the 'pic' useflag should be considered
> > > > something to be fixed: rewrite the asm in a PIC way. But these
> > > > days nobody has the will to do it since this is mostly an issue
> > > > on x86+pax, both being slowly decreasing.
> > > 
> > > Given that PaX has been stripped out of official Gentoo kernels
> > > due to the grsecurity licensing issue, I wonder if there is any
> > > other good reason to keep the "pic" USE flag today. Surely this
> > > affects a very small population of users.
> > 
> > Yeah that was my thought when I saw pax/grsec beginning to be more
> > hostile to open source. That's not my call but the hardened team's,
> > however I'm all for removing these workarounds entirely if there's
> > no point in having them anymore.
> Is not only PaX/Grsec that don't allow textrel. SELinux do it to and
> that is manline kernel.


k so that means there's no dropping the pic useflag then i guess

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