Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Disable SPP On GCC-4.8.3

[Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@googlemail.com>]

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A ) building gcc without spp does not disable spp for other packages.
B) spp is a good thing even for single user desktops.
C) i hate long answers without useful content.
D ) i hate the quoting of my phone.
Am 17.06.2014 15:05 schrieb "Frank Peters" <frank.peters@comcast.net>:

> On Tue, 17 Jun 2014 07:11:26 +0000 (UTC)
> Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> wrote:
>
> >  If you want to disable the strong-but-not-all default when it
> > comes in 4.9, OK, but I'd suggest at least keeping this minimal threshold
> > of protection, particularly since it /will/ be the default now and thus
> > there should be if anything fewer problems with it than not.
> >
>
> The problem with all Linux distributions, and not just Gentoo, is that
> they are directed toward a multi-user, networked environment.  As a
> consequence, they exhibit security and other features that generally
> make no sense whatsoever for a single-user desktop machine that optionally
> connects externally only with an ISP through a router/modem.
>
> I continually have configuration problems because of the need to
> work around the useless (vis-a-vis the single-user desktop) and
> myriad requirements of the multi-user, networked scenario.
>
> In the single-user, desktop environment, the probability of a buffer
> overflow "attack" is virtually nil, especially if one is highly selective
> about "surfing" the Internet and employing Internet software (which
> I am).
>
> There needs to be a Linux distribution or sub-distribution that caters
> to the needs of the single, desktop user, ensconced as he is within
> his private garret and far removed from the troubles of a massive
> network.  My system is configured in a way that is quite contrary
> to recommended Linux practice (for example I run only and always as the
> root superuser and have no need for file permissions) but yet it makes
> perfect sense for my situation.
>
> Are single desktop users that much of a minority?  I would hope not.
>
> Frank Peters
>
>
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