Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 13:04:27 -0700 From: Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu> To: Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net> Cc: Brendan Conoboy <synk@swcp.com>, security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make world clobbers (was Re: some nice advice...) Message-ID: <19990618130426.A27577@wopr.caltech.edu> In-Reply-To: <199906181955.OAA78685@aurora.sol.net>; from Joe Greco on Fri, Jun 18, 1999 at 02:55:22PM -0500 References: <199906181936.NAA17158@kitsune.swcp.com> <199906181955.OAA78685@aurora.sol.net>
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On Fri, Jun 18, 1999 at 02:55:22PM -0500, Joe Greco wrote: > secure service is a completely different issue. FreeBSD is highly nonoptimal > for this sort of thing, as it comes with everything thrown into /usr/local > or whereever the hell else the porter felt it should go. This statement is hardly fair. Ports go in $PREFIX, wherever that may be. If something has /usr/local hardcoded, then it's a bug and should be reported. The porters have no freedom in deciding whether this is the case. -- Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu> * UNIX is a lever for the http://www.pobox.com/~mph/ * intellect. -J.R. Mashey To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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