Re: [gentoo-dev] 'pax_kernel' USE flag

2021-07-07 Thread Thomas Deutschmann
On 2021-07-07 05:05, Matt Turner wrote: On Tue, Jul 6, 2021 at 7:41 PM Thomas Deutschmann wrote: As you probably know, I am not a Linux desktop user (yet). My complete experience with that PaX stuff is limited to servers. Maybe I've misunderstood what you meant. You don't use Linux on the

Re: [gentoo-dev] 'pax_kernel' USE flag

2021-07-06 Thread Thomas Deutschmann
On 2021-06-23 08:43, Matt Turner wrote: On Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 3:19 PM Thomas Deutschmann wrote: The PaX community in Gentoo is still big and active. Many Gentoo users received free access to upstream sources or became paying customers. It's just not available for everyone for free/without

Re: [gentoo-dev] 'pax_kernel' USE flag

2021-07-06 Thread Matt Turner
On Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 11:43 PM Matt Turner wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 3:19 PM Thomas Deutschmann wrote: > > The PaX community in Gentoo is still big and active. > > > > Many Gentoo users received free access to upstream sources or became > > paying customers. > > > > It's just not

Re: [gentoo-dev] 'pax_kernel' USE flag

2021-07-01 Thread Marek Szuba
On 2021-06-22 10:35, Marek Szuba wrote: Seeing as in the end this USE flag is not going anywhere in spite of Gentoo no longer providing PaX-capable kernel sources, could we please rename it (e.g. to 'pax-kernel') so that it no longer contains a disallowed character. Done. Now the old name

Re: [gentoo-dev] 'pax_kernel' USE flag

2021-06-26 Thread Sergei Trofimovich
On Wed, 23 Jun 2021 10:46:00 +0100 Marek Szuba wrote: > On 2021-06-22 19:01, Sergei Trofimovich wrote: > > > One of the steps forward for libffi would be to add extra USE=pax-kernel > > with REQUIRED_USE="pax_kernel? ( pax-kernel )" or 'die' equivalent. > > Sounds like a good idea to me,

Re: [gentoo-dev] 'pax_kernel' USE flag

2021-06-25 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
> > The PaX community in Gentoo is still big and active. > > > > Many Gentoo users received free access to upstream sources or became > > paying customers. > > > > It's just not available for everyone for free/without registration > > anymore. But it is still a thing in Gentoo. > > Can you

Re: [gentoo-dev] 'pax_kernel' USE flag

2021-06-23 Thread Marek Szuba
On 2021-06-22 19:01, Sergei Trofimovich wrote: One of the steps forward for libffi would be to add extra USE=pax-kernel with REQUIRED_USE="pax_kernel? ( pax-kernel )" or 'die' equivalent. Sounds like a good idea to me, that way people who don't pay attention to news items will notice. --

Re: [gentoo-dev] 'pax_kernel' USE flag

2021-06-23 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Wed, 23 Jun 2021, Michał Górny wrote: >> It's just not available for everyone for free/without registration >> anymore. But it is still a thing in Gentoo. > Your comment makes it sounds like 'just registering' is an option. > The website seems to disagree with that, pretty clearly

Re: [gentoo-dev] 'pax_kernel' USE flag

2021-06-23 Thread Michał Górny
On Wed, 2021-06-23 at 00:19 +0200, Thomas Deutschmann wrote: > The PaX community in Gentoo is still big and active. Do you have any evidence to prove that? The activity on PaX-related bugs seems to disagree with you. A 'big and active' community should probably result in many patches and fixed

Re: [gentoo-dev] 'pax_kernel' USE flag

2021-06-23 Thread Matt Turner
On Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 3:19 PM Thomas Deutschmann wrote: > The PaX community in Gentoo is still big and active. > > Many Gentoo users received free access to upstream sources or became > paying customers. > > It's just not available for everyone for free/without registration > anymore. But it is

Re: [gentoo-dev] 'pax_kernel' USE flag

2021-06-22 Thread Thomas Deutschmann
FYI: The PaX community in Gentoo is still big and active. Many Gentoo users received free access to upstream sources or became paying customers. It's just not available for everyone for free/without registration anymore. But it is still a thing in Gentoo. So I wonder, how is the status

Re: [gentoo-dev] 'pax_kernel' USE flag

2021-06-22 Thread Sergei Trofimovich
On Tue, 22 Jun 2021 10:35:12 +0100 Marek Szuba wrote: > Dear everyone, > > Seeing as in the end this USE flag is not going anywhere in spite of > Gentoo no longer providing PaX-capable kernel sources, could we please > rename it (e.g. to 'pax-kernel') so that it no longer contains a >

Re: [gentoo-dev] 'pax_kernel' USE flag

2021-06-22 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 12:06 PM Ulrich Mueller wrote: > > > On Tue, 22 Jun 2021, Marek Szuba wrote: > > > Seeing as in the end this USE flag is not going anywhere in spite of > > Gentoo no longer providing PaX-capable kernel sources, could we please > > rename it (e.g. to 'pax-kernel') so

Re: [gentoo-dev] 'pax_kernel' USE flag

2021-06-22 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Tue, 22 Jun 2021, Marek Szuba wrote: > Seeing as in the end this USE flag is not going anywhere in spite of > Gentoo no longer providing PaX-capable kernel sources, could we please > rename it (e.g. to 'pax-kernel') so that it no longer contains a > disallowed character. I understand

Re: [gentoo-dev] 'pax_kernel' USE flag

2021-06-22 Thread David Seifert
On Tue, 2021-06-22 at 10:35 +0100, Marek Szuba wrote: > Dear everyone, > > Seeing as in the end this USE flag is not going anywhere in spite of > rename it (e.g. to 'pax-kernel') so that it no longer contains a > disallowed character. I understand the main reason this hasn't been > done > yet