On 2017-06-13, Josh Stephens <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you Theo. After reading through your reply I would rather not > deal with a potential risk. I decided to go down the path of adding a > venv directory in /usr/local and giving my account as owner and wheel > as group. This should allow the python binaries to stay in /usr/local > and not have to set wxallowed on my /home directory. I believe this to > be a safer option but unfortunately security is not my strong suite so > I might be missing another security implication by going down this > road. > >
Note that python itself doesn't need W|X mappings, as long as you aren't using the very small number of python modules that need them (mostly webkit-related) you can remove the USE_WXNEEDED line from the port and rebuild from there..
