Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 14:27:36 +0100 From: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> To: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [new port] usage of shar command Message-ID: <20100719142736.5631251f@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <4C43B5C2.3070403@FreeBSD.org> References: <4C42CFDA.3040409@comclark.com> <4C43B5C2.3070403@FreeBSD.org>
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On Sun, 18 Jul 2010 19:17:38 -0700 Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > In any case, thanks for expressing your confusion, it's actually > really helpful to get information from the perspective of a new user. I wonder how many new users have read the bugs section of the shar man page, and know how to check such files for malicious script lines. That's not much of an issue for ports submission, but people are routinely posting these files in the mailing lists. Am I the only one that thinks it's odd that in 2010 we're still using executable scripts to distribute text files?
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