On Tuesday 15 February 2005 16:02, Stuart Herbert wrote: > One thing that it's really nice to do with a server is build it with no > compilers etc installed. �The less that's on there, the less there is to > maintain, upgrade, be reused by the black hats, etc etc.
I'm not a developer; strictly cut and paste stuff. Is gcc required to emerge -k? If the goal is to have a server without a compiler that could be used on malicious code wouldn't it be easier to just unmerge gcc? The replies I'm seeing all seem to involve a lot of work. Rob -- [email protected] mailing list
