On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 22:02:42 +0100 Alexander Mieland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | btw. ciaranm, you should think about to also make some proposals or | suggestions and not only to flame, or to say no.
Lemme explain. If you state a problem you're having and ask for solutions, I'll make suggestions if I can think of any that might work. If something goes into the tree but p.masked, I'll even try to help make it work properly if asked. If something goes into ~arch, I get mildly upset. But when stuff like this goes straight in as stable, the time for proposals and suggestions is over. To put this in perspective for you... Those files you put into /etc are stuck there for good. That's potentially tens of megabytes of junk. The only way you can get rid of it now is either via yet another horrid broken postinst hack. If the user happened to have other files named /var/log/emerge*, they'll now be in /etc too, complete with potentially security-violating file permissions. If the user gets sick of basc and unmerges it, it won't uninstall cleanly, no matter what the user has in their CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK. Then there's you trying really really hard to circumvent Unix file permissions. Personally I consider this to be a security bug. Seriously, I suggest reading up on permissions and how the Unix filesystem layout works. basc has potential to be really really useful. It's a shame that basic stuff like this is turning it into a disaster. Believe it or not, I don't *want* this thing to fall over horribly and die. The worst part of this, though, is that the person doing the committing is continuously knowingly violating keywording policy, and that he doesn't care. Rather than fixing the mistakes, he's spending his time digging through the ebuilds maintained by anyone who criticises him trying to find errors, and then emailing them without actually checking that he's really found a bug. But of course, since he's on the management cabal, there's not a damned thing anyone can do about it, no matter how many times he pulls crap like this off. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Fluxbox, shell tools) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm
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