Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 11:57:03 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>, Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.freebsd.org>, Oscar Bonilla <obonilla@galileo.edu>, Anthony Schneider <aschneid@mail.slc.edu>, Mike Meyer <mwm-dated-1019955884.8b118e@mired.org>, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Security through obscurity? (was: ssh + compiled-in SKEY support considered harmful?) Message-ID: <20020425115703.A79657@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <3CC6860B.17F10FBA@mindspring.com> References: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1020423234154.64976o-100000@fledge.watson.org> <3CC6860B.17F10FBA@mindspring.com>
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On Wednesday, 24 April 2002 at 3:16:43 -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > > The X11 we are talking about here is not "the default X11", which is > a set of distfiles, but a "ports" X11, which is not, but which is > likely to be the basis of future distfiles. Correct. > So we are really talking about an alternate set of code to provide > or not provide the TCP "X11 display service". More to the point, we're telling people that this is XFree86, a platform-independent package which we also supply. But it's not quite XFree86 because we've modified it. The modification in this case is very small but very far-reaching, and a newcomer would suspect the operating system, not XFree86, when he has problems. > The thing that offended the hell out of everyone way that the > decision was made for the future distfiles release (which is used by > practically everyone) by sneaking it in the ports back door (which > is used by practically no one), which, when viewed disparagingly, > looks like an attempt to "pull a fast one". Hmm. No, I for one wasn't "offended the hell". And I really don't see any malice here: it was done with the best of intentions, but I think without a proper understanding of the consequences. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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