hasufell posted on Sat, 29 Mar 2014 22:31:46 +0000 as excerpted: >> At least an einfo should be added to the package IMO telling the user >> that HPN is enabled by default. >> >> > No, that's not the right approach. There are tools you can use to check > what flags are enabled. Use 'eix' and 'equery' for example.
... Or even the gentoo-recommended emerge --pretend or emerge -ask and actually examining the output to ensure it's doing what you intend, before actually going ahead. Gentoo has never pretended to be a hand-holding distribution (tho it seems to be getting rather more so these days); gentooers ignoring that recommendation... get to keep the pieces. =:^) If a gentooer didn't care enough to bother following long established best-practice recommendations and thus end up with what might be an insecure ssh despite the tools and recommendations available to help them make an appropriate choice, that's their problem, not gentoo's. If they can't be bothered to care, there's other distributions around to do that baby-sitting for them. (Of course, whether such distributions are themselves simply acting in accord with the wishes of NSA nannies is an entirely different question... at least gentoo generally exposes that sort of choice to the user... as it is in fact doing here, as well.) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
