From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HXjTn-0000GS-Sc for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 31 Mar 2007 19:43:16 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l2VJfgB4027355; Sat, 31 Mar 2007 19:41:42 GMT Received: from ppsw-4.csi.cam.ac.uk (ppsw-4.csi.cam.ac.uk [131.111.8.134]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l2VJcw7P023697 for ; Sat, 31 Mar 2007 19:38:58 GMT X-Cam-SpamDetails: Not scanned X-Cam-AntiVirus: No virus found X-Cam-ScannerInfo: http://www.cam.ac.uk/cs/email/scanner/ Received: from 82-46-45-120.cable.ubr06.newt.blueyonder.co.uk ([82.46.45.120]:55538 helo=blashyrk) by ppsw-4.csi.cam.ac.uk (smtp.hermes.cam.ac.uk [131.111.8.154]:465) with esmtpsa (LOGIN:spb42) (TLSv1:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:256) id 1HXjPV-0005JT-Fz (Exim 4.63) for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org (return-path ); Sat, 31 Mar 2007 20:38:51 +0100 Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 20:39:57 +0100 From: Stephen Bennett To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [soc] Python bindings for Paludis Message-ID: <20070331203957.0ce015bd@blashyrk> In-Reply-To: <1175369043.5961.30.camel@localhost> References: <200703240028.15461.peper@gentoo.org> <200703271519.29674.vapier@gentoo.org> <20070327211510.0b426e09@snowflake> <200703301404.16400.vapier@gentoo.org> <20070331201602.3e50b815@Kacian2.emea.hpqcorp.net> <1175369043.5961.30.camel@localhost> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.8.1 (GTK+ 2.10.11; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: "S.P. Bennett" X-Archives-Salt: e3f4952b-bdf3-4d86-a7a2-15bfb077e9d9 X-Archives-Hash: e4083bc7ca991ae4d55f56ce657c0e2c On Sat, 31 Mar 2007 15:24:03 -0400 Seemant Kulleen wrote: > To make it more clear. If the gcc developers decided to stick some > malicious code into gcc, it affects the entire linux community, the > entire BSD community and would take out a few other communities as > well. The effects are far reaching and shared by everyone. If an > official package manager is outside of Gentoo's control, and the > maintainer(s) of that piece of software decide to do anything > malicious (examples: inject some dodgy code, remove documentation, > take out access to the repository, etc) for whatever reason (say, > they get pissed off at a few Gentoo people and decide that the entire > Gentoo community can be painted that way), then ... Gentoo developers can take the latest release of said package manager and continue development from that. That's the wonderful thing about the GPL, no? -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list