Re: intelligent following of directions, or following them by rote...

2016-10-09 Thread Linda Walsh
Erik Soderquist wrote: On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 6:04 PM, Linda Walsh wrote: As for package maintainers needing some specific behavior -- if a backdoor to your system was part of the "base" system, would you If there is a "back door" in a base package, that is a security failing and

Re: intelligent following of directions, or following them by rote...

2016-10-09 Thread Linda Walsh
Brian Inglis wrote: On 2016-10-07 16:04, Linda Walsh wrote: ... what affect on the cygwin installation would be if you didn't install the base vim package?Just a thought. Type v inside a PAGER (e.g. less or more). Run an editor on the current (long) command line in readline or shell

Re: intelligent following of directions, or following them by rote...

2016-10-08 Thread Erik Soderquist
On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 6:04 PM, Linda Walsh wrote: > As for package maintainers needing some specific behavior -- > if a backdoor to your system was part of the "base" system, would you If there is a "back door" in a base package, that is a security failing and needs to be reported and

Re: intelligent following of directions, or following them by rote...

2016-10-08 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2016-10-07 16:04, Linda Walsh wrote: Andrey Repin wrote: Greetings, Linda Walsh! Achim Gratz wrote: Now, that last question of yours: No, the package manager should never allow you to not install a base package. These are in category "Base" precisely so the rest of the system can rely on