This check was meant to test if the user has accidentally restricted
access to the /etc/portage/savedconfig directory. There are a few
problems:
1. We don't actually need read access on the directory. We really need
the execute bit set so that we can access files within the directory.
2.
> On 25 Sep 2021, at 20:44, Joshua Kinard wrote:
>
>> [snip]
>>
>> ECDSA and the NIST curves have been around since > 20 years, so it's
>> simply impossible that there are any valid patents covering those.
>> (There is of course a slight possibility that there may be patents
>> covering
On Sun, Sep 26, 2021 at 1:09 PM Peter Stuge wrote:
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> There's not neccessarily a conflict between a patented idea and a
> public domain implementation of that idea.
It kind of depends on what you mean by "conflict."
>
> Take a fictional example:
>
> You and I independently invent the same
Joshua Kinard wrote:
> > I'm not entirely sure what you'd like to ask the libtomcrypt authors.
> > "We think there may be patents, but we don't know. Did you consider
> > that?"
>
> No, actually, I was thinking something more along the lines of "Hey, are you
> aware of these supposed patent
Symlinking FILESDIR into the work tree has the unintended consequence
of preserving all original file metadata, including system-specific ACLs
and so on. When these files are installed, this could lead to
unintentionally copying this metadata to the system and/or binary
packages.
Let's copy all
Symlinking FILESDIR into the work tree has the unintended consequence
of preserving all original file metadata, including system-specific ACLs
and so on. When these files are installed, this could lead to
unintentionally copying this metadata to the system and/or binary
packages.
Let's copy all
Symlinking FILESDIR into the work tree has the unintended consequence
of preserving all original file metadata, including system-specific ACLs
and so on. When these files are installed, this could lead to
unintentionally copying this metadata to the system and/or binary
packages.
Let's copy all
# A library without revdeps, EAPI-5. #776901
# Removal in ~30 days.
OpenPGP_signature
Description: OpenPGP digital signature
On Mon, Sep 20, 2021 at 11:30 AM Ulrich Mueller wrote:
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> > On Mon, 20 Sep 2021, Alec Warner wrote:
>
> > The devmanual discusses licensing as a core concept
> > (https://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/licenses/index.html)
> > but does not cover patents. My understanding is that we:
>
