Date: Sun, 17 Oct 1999 11:39:10 -0600 (MDT) From: David G Andersen <danderse@cs.utah.edu> To: jdn@acp.qiv.com (Jay Nelson) Cc: Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca, jwyatt@rwsystems.net, glewis@trc.adelaide.edu.au, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeSSH Message-ID: <199910171739.LAA21629@faith.cs.utah.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9910161845430.2099-100000@acp.qiv.com> from "Jay Nelson" at Oct 16, 99 07:19:47 pm
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Given that it may take a lot of re-engineering to change the build process
to not install the packages in the first place, what if we changed the
installation to create a "virtual" package entry for them, so that
an interested sysadmin could then use pkg_delete to nuke the components of
the package? It would be easy enough to generate the packing list at
compile time, and then stuff it in a known location at build time.
This wouldn't save download time or initial space, but it *would*
help make the security goal easier, from my point of view.
-Dave
Lo and behold, Jay Nelson once said:
>
> On Sat, 16 Oct 1999, Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
> >... I think that
> >the bloat caused by UUCP, YP, NFS, and Sendmail is small. For example
>
> I heartily agree. The nice thing about a "standard" system is that
> there are features you can count on. Many are not used on the typical
> installation, yet I rarely remove them unless there is a compelling
> reason -- things change over time.
>
> Hell -- if we're going to get rid of "bloat", let's get rid of grep
> and sed, since very few newbies understand regular expressions -- or
> the man pages -- few read them and they take up a _huge_ amount of
> space;)
>
> (Only my 2 bits)
>
> -- Jay
>
>
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