From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15937 invoked from network); 21 May 2004 16:55:32 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (156.56.111.197) by parrot.ussg.indiana.edu with SMTP; 21 May 2004 16:55:32 +0000 Received: from parrot.ussg.indiana.edu ([156.56.111.196] helo=parrot.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BRDIy-0006xb-8l for arch-gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 21 May 2004 16:55:32 +0000 Received: (qmail 13551 invoked by uid 89); 21 May 2004 16:55:31 +0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 21727 invoked from network); 21 May 2004 16:55:31 +0000 Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 17:53:51 +0100 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Message-Id: <20040521175351.40368625@snowdrop.home> In-Reply-To: <200405211742.44615.c.j.bainbridge@ed.ac.uk> References: <200405201846.37173.cbrewer@stealthaccess.net> <200405211712.50469.c.j.bainbridge@ed.ac.uk> <20040521173312.330ed08e@snowdrop.home> <200405211742.44615.c.j.bainbridge@ed.ac.uk> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.10claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg="pgp-sha1"; boundary="Signature=_Fri__21_May_2004_17_53_51_+0100_vjwmAH+3ggOyupv7" X-OriginalArrivalTime: 21 May 2004 16:55:34.0024 (UTC) FILETIME=[6EB2F080:01C43F54] Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Stuff that makes people mad X-Archives-Salt: 55c546b1-6254-4c42-b95e-28e48ac3b7b0 X-Archives-Hash: 485754b09c42dc8f07fc25ecf309a1ad --Signature=_Fri__21_May_2004_17_53_51_+0100_vjwmAH+3ggOyupv7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Fri, 21 May 2004 17:42:44 +0100 Chris Bainbridge wrote: | > Also, this tree would have to be kept *entirely* separate from the | > main tree. It's possible for a rogue ebuild to screw up the entire | > tree. This brings us back to BMG, for example. | | Ebuilds are trapped in their own directory, I don't see how adding | them messes up other ebuilds. Unless you mean that they can do bad | things like overwriting libc, which would be pretty obvious and | reported straight away by users of the ebuild. All you have to do is add in one little call that does something naughty in global scope and you can nuke the entire tree from an ebuild. -- Ciaran McCreesh, Gentoo XMLcracy Member G03X276 (Sparc, MIPS, Vim, si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web: http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm --Signature=_Fri__21_May_2004_17_53_51_+0100_vjwmAH+3ggOyupv7 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFArjQj96zL6DUtXhERAgGqAJ4oDDsUet4fHXp0ZqzlR2weX3o0lQCfVEKQ bSsLBDzg1QLPsLuEkffvsx8= =LD+O -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Signature=_Fri__21_May_2004_17_53_51_+0100_vjwmAH+3ggOyupv7--