Re: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral

[Rahul Siddharthan]

Terry Lambert said on Jul 10, 2001 at 09:56:58:
> 
> Also, you should be aware that in commercial deployment,
> having a compiler on board the system is often considered
> a bad thing, as it permits entre to exploiters bringing
> their own programs onto the system.

I've seen people disable compilers before, but I haven't understood
how it helps.  You can compile elsewhere and bring the binary onto the
system, can't you?  Unless the system is some extremely rare OS or
doesn't ship with a compiler at all -- neither of which is true of
FreeBSD.

R

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