Re: [gentoo-dev] Current unavoidable use of xz utils in Gentoo

2024-04-04 Thread Kévin GASPARD DE RENEFORT
If that’s working, it could at least be on an user personnal page on the wiki as well. Le 04/04/2024 à 10:32, Sam James a écrit : Eli Schwartz writes: On 4/3/24 11:30 AM, Eddie Chapman wrote: Just to report I've been able to remove app-arch/xz-utils from my own workstation, with 2412

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Current unavoidable use of xz utils in Gentoo

2024-04-03 Thread Kévin GASPARD DE RENEFORT
Sorry but I wanted to add something to what is written below: I'll insist as other did before: An other alternative would be to start your own overlay, push something to help Gentoo's dev, anything, because saying more or less "Do that because actually it's bad" is something rarely

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Current unavoidable use of xz utils in Gentoo

2024-04-03 Thread Kévin GASPARD DE RENEFORT
Helping with any of these three would certainly be reasonable. But demanding a *LOT* of work to alternative-force an already attack-reverted package, when we actually KNOW about that one, it's reverted to pre-attack and there's likely to be no more mischief there /because/ everybody's looking

Re: [gentoo-dev] Current unavoidable use of xz utils in Gentoo

2024-04-01 Thread Kévin GASPARD DE RENEFORT
Thanks for clarifying that, it wasn't clear to me when I read the earlier e-mail. Personally I think the long term solution is to identify critical code bases that have a low bus factor before the bad actors do and make a concentrated community effort to help audit and maintain these code bases.