On Wed, Jan 07, 2015 at 06:49:56AM -0500, Philip Webb wrote: > 150106 William Hubbs wrote: > > Many packages have been masked in the tree for months - years > > with no signs of fixes. I am particularly concerned > > about packages with known security vulnerabilities > > staying in the main tree masked. If people want to keep those packages, > > I don't want to stop them, but packages like this should be in an overlay, > > not the main tree. > > -- snip -- > > > # Tavis Ormandy <tav...@gentoo.org> (21 Mar 2006) > > # masked pending unresolved security issues #125902 > > games-roguelike/nethack > > -- snip -- > > This one is perfectly safe on a single-user system : please leave it there.
I'm not opposed to it staying in the tree under one of these conditions: 1) fix it and remove the mask or 2) remove the mask and add ewarns to the ebuild William
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