From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Apr 25 20:10:56 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA00962 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sat, 25 Apr 1998 20:10:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.119.24.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA00954 for ; Sat, 25 Apr 1998 20:10:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [194.198.43.36]) by ns1.yes.no (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id DAA09218; Sun, 26 Apr 1998 03:10:44 GMT Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id FAA23184; Sun, 26 Apr 1998 05:10:44 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19980426051043.29132@follo.net> Date: Sun, 26 Apr 1998 05:10:43 +0200 From: Eivind Eklund To: Alex , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Speaking of packaging tools.. References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Alex on Sat, Apr 25, 1998 at 07:58:38PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Apr 25, 1998 at 07:58:38PM -0700, Alex wrote: > Here's a little something that was posted to the kde-devel mailing list. > It only generates ELF binaries which isn't a huge problem, because it > doesn't seem to use anything from libc. Perhaps this could prove useful > in revamping pkg_*. And, yes, it does work nicely (without ELF libs). Neat - but do we really want to go in the direction of packages that can contain trojans? Personally I wouldn't like running a self-extracting archive, at least... Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message