Re: [gentoo-user] portage no longer in world?

2011-08-04 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Thursday, August 04, 2011 12:10:25 AM Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wed 03 August 2011 17:44:08 Willie Wong did opine thusly: On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 01:38:58PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: It's sensible really - portage is not the only package manager out there and therefore should not be in

Re: [gentoo-user] portage no longer in world?

2011-08-04 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 3:00 AM, Joost Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: On Thursday, August 04, 2011 12:10:25 AM Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wed 03 August 2011 17:44:08 Willie Wong did opine thusly: On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 01:38:58PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: It's sensible really -

[gentoo-user] [OT] NFSv4: 32-bit server versus 64-bit client?

2011-08-04 Thread walt
I'm trying to be a good gentoo netizen by nfs-sharing /usr/portage between my three local gentoo machines, and failing :( After weeks of fiddling, I discovered today that my problems come from using a 32-bit machine to serve my two 64-bit NFS clients(!) (I'll mention up front that NFSv3 works

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] NFSv4: 32-bit server versus 64-bit client?

2011-08-04 Thread Todd Goodman
* walt w41...@gmail.com [110804 17:26]: I'm trying to be a good gentoo netizen by nfs-sharing /usr/portage between my three local gentoo machines, and failing :( After weeks of fiddling, I discovered today that my problems come from using a 32-bit machine to serve my two 64-bit NFS

Re: [gentoo-user] portage no longer in world?

2011-08-04 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Aug 04, 2011 at 12:10:25AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Though it is silly IMHO that portage would want to remove itself with depclean. Could it not be hardcoded into portage that it should try to keep itself updated and not commit suicide? (Independently of the @system sets.)

[gentoo-user] www-client/chromium

2011-08-04 Thread Thanasis
I noticed that chromium's code has a lot of vulnerabilities. https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=www-client%2Fchromium I suppose this is why we see so often version upgrades of it (and it's not a small app to build). Why is its code so, should I say prone to bugs, compared to other

Re: [gentoo-user] www-client/chromium

2011-08-04 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 12:05 AM, Thanasis thana...@asyr.hopto.org wrote: I noticed that chromium's code has a lot of vulnerabilities. https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=www-client%2Fchromium I suppose this is why we see so often version upgrades of it (and it's not a small app to

Re: [gentoo-user] www-client/chromium

2011-08-04 Thread Adam Carter
On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 2:05 PM, Thanasis thana...@asyr.hopto.org wrote: I noticed that chromium's code has a lot of vulnerabilities. https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=www-client%2Fchromium I suppose this is why we see so often version upgrades of it (and it's not a small app to

Re: [gentoo-user] www-client/chromium

2011-08-04 Thread Michael Mol
On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 12:23 AM, Adam Carter adamcart...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 2:05 PM, Thanasis thana...@asyr.hopto.org wrote: I noticed that chromium's code has a lot of vulnerabilities. https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=www-client%2Fchromium I suppose this is

Re: [gentoo-user] www-client/chromium

2011-08-04 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 12:36 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: At least one of the multiple vulnerabilities bugs linked to a Chrome update notice which didn't list any vulnerabilities. (Well, except a Flash update, which I didn't dig into) -- :wq M Flash. Now there is a nice

Re: [gentoo-user] www-client/chromium

2011-08-04 Thread Thanasis
on 08/05/2011 07:23 AM Adam Carter wrote the following: On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 2:05 PM, Thanasis thana...@asyr.hopto.org wrote: I noticed that chromium's code has a lot of vulnerabilities. https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=www-client%2Fchromium I suppose this is why we see so

Re: [gentoo-user] www-client/chromium

2011-08-04 Thread Adam Carter
You've made an assumption there. Maybe my assumption isn't true, after all seeing the list for firefox that Matthew pointed to, although with firefox we don't see upgrades so often, I guess we should *not* feel more secure with it... The noscript firefox addon gives significant protection

Re: [gentoo-user] www-client/chromium

2011-08-04 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 1:14 AM, Adam Carter adamcart...@gmail.com wrote: You've made an assumption there. Maybe my assumption isn't true, after all seeing the list for firefox that Matthew pointed to, although with firefox we don't see upgrades so often, I guess we should *not* feel

Re: [gentoo-user] www-client/chromium

2011-08-04 Thread Mick
On Friday 05 Aug 2011 06:14:37 Adam Carter wrote: You've made an assumption there. Maybe my assumption isn't true, after all seeing the list for firefox that Matthew pointed to, although with firefox we don't see upgrades so often, I guess we should *not* feel more secure with it...