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 1IBr2U-0004UM-6r for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 20 Jul 2007 11:52:54 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l6KBpqO8010748; Fri, 20 Jul 2007 11:51:52 GMT Received: from agaffney.org (68-188-61-127.dhcp.stls.mo.charter.com [68.188.61.127]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l6KBndut007899 for ; Fri, 20 Jul 2007 11:49:40 GMT Received: from [192.168.0.10] (kagome [192.168.0.10]) by agaffney.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30FEF1E0061 for ; Fri, 20 Jul 2007 06:49:38 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <46A0A151.8090909@gentoo.org> Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 06:49:37 -0500 From: Andrew Gaffney User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 (X11/20070617) 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 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: net-im/pidgin protocols References: <469F1C56.6070600@gentoo.org> <469F372A.9060107@gentoo.org> <469F3A9F.7030004@gentoo.org> <46A0DE7B.6030009@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 460dba9e-cce4-44c5-9c93-970840059fb4 X-Archives-Hash: e3ab767a4c65298c0b617133ed69bdd8 Eric Polino wrote: > If this is truly a problem, then I think the negative USE flags might > be the better solution then. This would allow users the ability to > disable potential insecure features. But really, I doubt security is > an issue here. The negative (or no*) USE flags are generally considered a "bad thing". They're "icky". -- Andrew Gaffney http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/ Gentoo Linux Developer Catalyst/Installer + x86 release coordinator -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list