> Gr�goire Colbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > > On Friday 31 August 2001 01:14 am, Borsenkow Andrej methodically
> > > organized electrons to state:
>
>
> > >> Remove libsafe. It is unmaintained and should be killed on the
spot
> > >> (and I do not understand why it is in distro).
>
> I'm answering to this part (don't have the original message),
>
> Libsafe is :
> - not unmaintained.
> - very usefull.
>
The bug that was reported in original message was reported by me half a
year ago, in early beta stage of 8.0. 8.0 was released with this bug
that prevented KDE from working. You may call this "maintained" and
"useful". I have slightly different notion what it means.
> If you think libsafe should be killed,
> then you don't know a damn thing about security.
>
I think that creating external library that tries to replace libc
functions is silly (mildly put). Such library can exist only as part of
glibc and be build from *the*same*source* as glibc. Only then can such
library be trusted.
-andrej
