From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IzfQa-0007UM-Bg for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 04 Dec 2007 21:35:41 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.2/8.14.0) with SMTP id lB4LYNqp004797; Tue, 4 Dec 2007 21:34:23 GMT Received: from atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz (atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz [195.113.31.123]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.2/8.14.0) with ESMTP id lB4LUBqw032575 for ; Tue, 4 Dec 2007 21:30:12 GMT Received: by atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz (Postfix, from userid 26684) id 90E85F03E4; Tue, 4 Dec 2007 22:30:11 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2007 22:30:10 +0100 From: "Michal 'vorner' Vaner" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Hardened & skype & gcc-4* Message-ID: <20071204213010.GA4081@tarantula.kolej.mff.cuni.cz> References: <49bf44f10712041301g31965a0bsa53d22affda2f471@mail.gmail.com> <20071204210758.GA2235@tarantula.kolej.mff.cuni.cz> <49bf44f10712041319u255eb031h1b14f2c2c575d415@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="x+6KMIRAuhnl3hBn" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <49bf44f10712041319u255eb031h1b14f2c2c575d415@mail.gmail.com> Jabber-ID: michal.vaner@njs.netlab.cz User-Agent: Mutt 1.5.16 (2007-06-09) X-Archives-Salt: a555cba0-d354-4982-a618-08ab8dd9faf8 X-Archives-Hash: 1bb531158ddda05073b4867d15bba7cc --x+6KMIRAuhnl3hBn Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 01:19:29PM -0800, Grant wrote: > > I guess it makes no sense for skype to need the GCC, since you do not > > (can not) compile skype, it is close-sourced. You could download skype > > from the pages and just unpack it and hope it will work. >=20 > I'm actually able to emerge it, but it won't start with: >=20 > $ skype > /usr/bin/skype: line 10: /opt/skype/skype: No such file or directory > /usr/bin/skype: line 10: /opt/skype/skype: Success >=20 > even though /usr/bin/skype and /opt/skype/skype clearly exist. What > you're saying makes sense about gcc-4* not being necessary, but then > why the above-referenced bug? Take the statically linked version? And, no, I do not know about that bug, I'm lucky enough not to have Skype installed any more. > > BTW: IMO skype should not be allowed near a computer that needs to be > > "hardened" -- personally, I do not trust it a bit (and I know a little > > about the quality how it is written, and it talks by network). >=20 > What would you recommend as an alternative? From what I understand, I > could sign up with a voip service and install a client. Would you > recommend any in particular, both service and client? If you need it user-friendly, then maybe wengo, or ekiga. AFAIK both work over the SIP protocol, so you can replace the client with whatever else comes to your path and speaks it. And you may set up your own server too, if it comes to it. (Sorry, I have not much experience with it, I just had something to do with skype and was able to crash every version in multiple different ways, so I just do not recommend it at all). --=20 All flame and insults will go to /dev/null (if they fit) Michal 'vorner' Vaner --x+6KMIRAuhnl3hBn Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBHVcbi7/oWwynB3bIRAqwgAJ9LsPNGyR7A1ekU9b1G7FqfsU6hSACeLHwE ataITc7ArNk2c3T200pNdL0= =zLro -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --x+6KMIRAuhnl3hBn-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list