On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 17:01 +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > 3.5.5 was good enough to be keyworded stable at one point. Thus, it > can't be *that* bad.
So what happens if a flaw is discovered in KDE 3.5.5 that allows root access? In your world you allow mips users to trivially install now flawed and insecure software, instead of having to add to /etc/portage/package.keywords or package.unmask Yes, this breaks their tree, but it's fixable from the users end as we can rest in the knowledge that mips users have acknowledged the security flaw by adding the package to the above mentioned files. Thanks Roy -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
