"Santiago M. Mola" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Thu, 17 Apr 2008 11:51:32 +0200:
> If that's possible, we shouldn't support it anyway. If someone wants to > use /var/tmp/port\/age we'll just stab him, if someone releases a > tarball with such filenames we'll stab him, too. Agreed. It's not a question of Gentoo support I'm worried about, but of the absolute statement and someone coming across it and relying on it in a (possibly unrelated) context in which it perhaps isn't possible to rely on, to unknown negative consequences possibly including security issues. Also, as it's in the upthread, just in case someone doesn't get the apology I just sent, let me again unconditionally apologize for the very big screwup I made of things above. It didn't come out the way I intended at all, and I thank someone for rightfully pointing that out, and also the person who brought it to my attention offlist and allowing me to try to correct the problem -- tho I realize it's not something that really /can/ be entirely corrected. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
