Neil Schneider wrote:
>..We don't really need much in the
> way of development tools, and from a security point of view, there
> shouldn't be any on a web server/mail server. It only makes it easier
> for the crackers to compile their tools, if they break in to the
> server.

That raises a side point: where _will_ we compile things that may
want/need to be built in the future? On another xen image? On the mirror
server we haven't budgeted? <heh> Somewhere where the libs and headers
might not be quite compatible?

Regards,
..jim

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