On 3/24/08, Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > how much do we want to help the user ? if they have USE=filecaps, then dont > perform any checking ? we'll need a kernel with file capabilities turned on, > otherwise the prog wont work unless it's setuid ... so do we perform checking > and drop the setuid bit on the post sly ? i'd prefer we just make the > filecaps desc verbose: dont set this unless you have new enough kernel with > options enabled, otherwise things may stop working properly as non-root.
I also prefer descriptive warning and not runtime checks. Worse case scenario, system will be usable for root only. root can remove this USE flag and emerge --update --deep --newuse world. Alon. -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
